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This petty curiosity cropped upwardly inward the Patents Court on eleven Oct but was noted on subscription service Lawtel only this morning: it's the conclusion of Mr Justice Pumfrey inward a representative administration issue, Takeda Pharmaceutical as well as Cyanamid of Britain Ltd v (i) Teva United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Ltd as well as (ii) Sandoz Ltd as well as Sandoz GmbH , [2005] EWHC 2191 (Pat). Teva as well as Sandoz were defendants inward variety out patent infringement actions brought past times Takeda, who owned iii patents for pharmaceutical formulations for lansoprazole (a.k.a. Zoton), as well as past times Takeda's licensee Cyanamid. Teva as well as Sandoz both applied to select forwards the hearing appointment of a patent infringement activity to a appointment before than that already fixed inward the instant action, the representative against Sandoz. The lawsuit of the activity was...

has been pondering over a recent illustration inwards which the Patents Court awarded interim damages inwards fellowship to alleviate the pose of the claimant, fifty-fifty though the infringement determination was itself nether appeal. Is this something that happens often, he wonders, together with does it sometimes hap that interim damages plow out to hold upwards irrecoverable where an appellate courtroom concludes that in that place has been no infringement later all? Interim damages may hold upwards grabbed dorsum from the ultimately unsuccessful IP owner Readers' thoughts together with comments are welcome. Please ship them here or post them underneath this spider web log past times clicking the discussion "comments".