PATENTS – method claims – method claims that do not result in a product – patent area – infringement – infringement where method claims are partially performed offshore – exploit – exclusive rights given by patent – object of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – interlocutory application for summary dismissal – novel question of law – application dismissed
Recent cases about patent infringement
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Novartis AG v Pharmacor Pty Limited [2025] FCAFC 33
PATENTS – infringement – standard patent for a pharmaceutical composition containing certain active pharmaceutical ingredients – claim construction – whether primary judge erred in construction of claim as not including a pharmaceutical composition where the active pharmaceutical ingredient is in the form of a complex in which the ions are associated by non-covalent bonds –…
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Novartis AG v Pharmacor PL [2025] FCAFC 33
PATENTS – infringement – standard patent for a pharmaceutical composition containing certain active pharmaceutical ingredients – claim construction – whether primary judge erred in construction of claim as not including a pharmaceutical composition where the active pharmaceutical ingredient is in the form of a complex in which the ions are associated by non-covalent bonds –…
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Hytera Communications Corporation Ltd v Motorola Solutions Inc [2024] FCAFC 168
PATENTS – indirect infringement – appellant found to have infringed respondent’s patent (Australian Patent No 2005275355) relating to digital mobile radios (DMRs) using Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technology to divide frequency channel – appeal against finding of infringement – disputed issues of construction – appeal against finding of validity – whether the invention claimed…
