The Horne Engineering Company Ltd v Reliance Water Controls Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date2000
CourtChancery Division (Patents Court)
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  • Schlumberger Holdings Ltd v Electromagnetic Geoservices as
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • July 28, 2010
    ...enzymologist. 51 However I am not sure that even Pumfrey J was always of the same opinion. In Horne Engineering v Reliance Water Controls [2000] FSR 90, in the context of considering common general knowledge, he said: I would add that although it has to be remembered that a specification ma......
  • Schlumberger Holdings Ltd v Electromagnetic Geoservices as
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • Invalid date
  • InterDigital Technology Corporation and Others v Lenovo Group Ltd and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • January 19, 2023
    ...point does not relate to that at all. 43 A slightly different point was also advanced by Lenovo, based on Horne Engineering v Reliance [2000] FSR 90 (Pumfrey J). At paragraph 14 Pumfrey J said that “ it is often possible to deduce the attributes which the skilled man must possess from the a......
  • Illumina Cambridge Ltd v Latvia MGI Tech Sia
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division (Patents Court)
    • January 20, 2021
    ...to put together his invention by combining any skill-sets he likes. As Pumfrey J said in Horne Engineering v Reliance Water Controls [2000] FSR 90 (quoted in Schlumberger at para 51) “it is often possible to deduce the attributes which the skilled man must possess from the assumptions which......
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