The Business Law Reports
[2011] Bus LR D153
Chancery Division
Gedeon Richter plc
v
Bayer Schering Pharma AG
[2011] EWHC 583 (Pat)
2011 Feb 22–
25;
28;
March 1;
17
Floyd J
Patent— Revocation— Obviousness— European patent for medical invention— Claim for revocation on ground of obviousness in items of prior art— Guidance as to how to identify inventive step— Whether principle to examine each step of process by skilled person leading to determination on obviousness— Whether steps in process capable of hindering finding of inventiveness