The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1954] AC 321
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
PARKE DAVIS & CO. APPELLANT; AND COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF PATENTS, DESIGNS AND TRADE MARKS AND ANOTHER RESPONDENTS.
1954 Feb. 5,
8;
Mar. 11.
Mar. 11.
LORD SIMONDS L.C., LORD OAKSEY, LORD MORTON OF HENRYTON, LORD ASQUITH OF BISHOPSTONE and LORD COHEN.
Patent
— International convention
— Medicine
— Compulsory licence
— Application
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International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 1934 (Cmd. No. 5833), Treaty Series No. 55 (1938), art. 5A (4)
—
Patents Act, 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 87), ss. 41 (1), 45 (3).
Statute
— Construction
— International convention
— Statute subject to convention
— Construction of convention.