In Illumina v Latvia MGI Tech (‘MGI’) [2021] EWHC 57 (Pat), Birss J (as he then was) has handed down a 520 paragraph judgment providing some helpful practical guidance in respect of several issues that commonly ...

The 11th edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Patents 2021 is a practical cross-border insight into patent law, with contributing editor Katharine Stephens of Bird & Bird.

In a judgment handed down today the UK Supreme Court has upheld the appeal of Kymab who had challenged Regeneron's patents covering Kymab's 'Kymouse' transgenic mouse.

Although concerned with a complex gene technology, the outcome of this appeal will have substantial impact on the validity of patents generally where doubts are raised as to the level of disclosure provided in a ...

Earlier this year (17 July 2019) in Takeda UK Limited v F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG Mr Justice Colin Birss of the Patents Court of the English High Court of Justice handed down a judgment holding that Roche’s European ...

A majority postulates a new "outward presentation test" to deal with the infringement of second medical use patents.

In a long awaited decision handed down yesterday, the Court of Appeal upheld the first instance decision of Mr Justice Arnold in the Patents Court that claims 1 and 3 of Warner-Lambert's second medical use patent ...

An update on patent enforcement in the UK