01 Apr 2021
Slingsby Partners Gives Well-Received Lecture at Middlesex University
Anna Bools and Philip Slingsby were invited by Middlesex University to talk to students about Intellectual Property issues facing designers. Anna and Philip talked to around 60 students on Middlesex University’s Product Design, Product Design Engineering and Design Engineering courses.
Read more02 Mar 2021
CIPA Webinars
Slingsby Partners’ Director of Practice Operations, Charlotte Knight, and Senior Paralegal, Emma Norris, have held three webinars for the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) on formal aspects of filing patent applications at the US Patent Office.
Read more14 Apr 2020
Technetix V Telestre: Equivalence and "The Gillette Defence"
One of the questions that has preoccupied patent pundits since the Supreme Court first introduced a doctrine of equivalents into the UK patent system in Actavis v Eli Lilly ([2017] UKSC 48) is the fact of the so-called "Gillette Defence". Is it still a defence against patent infringement to do something which differs from the prior art only in non-patentable ways?
Read more14 Apr 2020
Regen V Estar: Applying Actavis To Numerical Limitations
The Supreme Court introduced a doctrine of equivalents into the UK patent infringement system for the first time in Actavis v Eli Lilly ([2017] UKSC 48). Regen v Estar ([2019] EWHC 63) applied this new approach to a claimed numerical limitation.
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