Windsurfing International Inc. v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE OLIVER |
| Judgment Date | 31 January 1984 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1984] EWCA Civ J0131-3 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
| Docket Number | 84/0031 |
| Date | 31 January 1984 |
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Pharmacia Corporation v Merck & Company Inc.
...fact, and the factual analysis is habitually approached in the manner described by Oliver LJ in Windsurfing International v Tabur Marine [1985] RPC 59 at 73. There are, we think, four steps which require to be taken in answering the jury question. The first is to identify the inventive conc......
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Eli Lilly & Co. et al. v. Apotex Inc., (2009) 351 F.T.R. 1 (FC)
...follow the four-step approach first outlined by Oliver, L.J., in Windsurfing International Inc. v. Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd. , [1985] R.P.C. 59 (C.A.). This approach should bring better structure to the obviousness inquiry and more objectivity and clarity to the analysis. The Windsu......
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6 firm's commentaries
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Species Of Obviousness
...prior art "available to the public" under s. 28.3. Footnotes 1 Windsurfing International Inc. v. Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd., [1985] R.P.C. 59 (C.A); Pozzoli SPA v. BDMO SA, [2007] F.S.R. 37 (p. 872), [2007] EWCA Civ 588, at para. 2 Apotex Inc. v. Sanofi‑Synthelabo Canada Inc., [2008]......
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Changes to Australia’s Law on Inventive Step Put On-Hold Following Consultation on Draft Legislation
...approach in the UK (so named after the cases in which it was developed: Windsurfing International Inc. v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd [1985] RPC 59 and Pozzoli SPA v BDMO SA [2007] EWCA Civ 588). Furthermore, if the history of inventive step in Australia since the government’s efforts (......
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Canadian Patent Law 2023: A Year In Review
...the four-step approach to assessing obviousness first outlined in Windsurfing International Inc v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd, [1985] RPC 59 (CA). In areas of endeavour where advances are often won by experimentation, the assessment often includes consideration of whether the claimed i......
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Cholesterol: It's All About The Numbers, Even The Patents
...skilled person, examined Patent 382 through the four steps elucidated in Windsurfing International Inc v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd [1985] RPC 59. First step: The identification of the inventive concept in the patent. Patent 382 claimed that the Claimed Dosage Range of rosuvastatin (o......
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15 books & journal articles
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THE FUTURE OF INVENTIVE STEP IN PATENT LAW
...12 Hector MacQueen et al, Contemporary Intellectual Property Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2nd Ed, 2011) at para 11.109. 13[1985] RPC 59. 14 Lord Reid in Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd v Mills & Rockley (Electronics) Ltd[1972] RPC 346 at 355. 15 Cap 221, 2005 Rev Ed; see furthe......
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INTERPRETING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STATUTES IN SINGAPORE
...framework set out by the English Court of Appeal in Windsurfing International Inc v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd (“Windsurfing”) [1985] RPC 59, which was adopted by the Singapore courts in Merck & Co Inc v Pharmaforte Singapore Pte Ltd[2000] 2 SLR(R) 708 at [50]. 28 Cap 221, 2005 Rev Ed......
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THE LEAHY-SMITH AMERICA INVENTS ACT
...patent's claims.” 94 See, eg, Pozzoli SpA v BDMO SA[2007] EWCA Civ 588; Windsurfing InternationalInc v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd[1985] RPC 59 (CA). 95 See, eg, Daniel J Gervais, The TRIPS Agreement: Drafting History and Analysis (Sweet & Maxwell, 3rd Ed, 2008) at para 1.06. 96 See, e......
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Intellectual Property Law
...fourstep test (‘Windsurfing test’) espoused by the UK Court of Appeal in Windsurfing International Inc v Tabur Marine (Great Britain) Ltd [1985] RPC 59 (see, eg, Ng Kok Cheng v Chua Say Tiong [2001] 2 SLR(R) 326). The test was formulated with reference to the repealed Patents Act 1949 (c 87......
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