Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Mills & Rockley (Electronics) Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtHouse of Lords
Year1971
Date1971

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134 cases
  • Generics (UK) Ltd v H Lundbeck A/S
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • 4 May 2007
    ...much at an experimental stage in 1988. The words of Lord Diplock in Technograph Printed Circuits v Mills & Rockley (Electronics) [1972] RPC 346 at 362 are particularly apposite: “The cross-examination of the respondents' expert followed with customary skill the familiar “step by step” ......
  • Muhlbauer AG v Manufacturing Integration Technology Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • Invalid date
  • Rockwater Ltd v Technip France SA and another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 6 April 2004
  • Peng Lian Trading Company v Contour Optik Inc. and Others
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 24 June 2003
    ...technician. What this means was elaborated as follows by Lord Reid in Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Mills & Rockley Electronics Ltd [1972] RPC 346 at “To whom must the invention be obvious? It is not disputed that the hypothetical addressee is a skilled technician who is well acquainte......
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2 firm's commentaries
  • SEB v De'Longhi Appeal
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 4 May 2004
    ...rather than by cross appeal, but this was a matter of form rather than substance. [2] British Westinghouse [1910] 27 RPC 230, Technograph [1972] RPC 346 [3] Sabaf [2002] EWCA Civ 976, Panduit [2003] FSR 8, Wheatley [2001]RPC 7 The content of this article is intended to provide a general gui......
  • Changes to inventive step in Australia - a view from the devil's advocate
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 12 July 2013
    ...document was likely to have been ascertained. The following quote actually comes from the UK decision in Technograph v Mills and Rockley [1972] RPC 346: "[T]here may be documents which, although available, would never be looked at by anyone making such a search as our hypothetical addressee......
2 books & journal articles
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...confusing. Hence, it expressed preference for Lord Reid”s view in Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Mills & Rockley (Electronics) Ltd[1972] RPC 346 that there should be a distinction between the two. Lord Reid justified this view by confining the knowledge of the person skilled in the art ......
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2005, December 2005
    • 1 December 2005
    ...only if it is obvious to do so: see Lord Reid”s judgment in Technograph Printed Circuits Limited v Mills & Rockley (Electronics) Limited[1972] RPC 346 at 355 (‘a mosaic which can be put together by an unimaginative man with no inventive capacity’). 16.155 On appeal, Tan J upheld the trial j......