Hearings
England & Wales
[1985] FSR 379, CA
[1985] FSR 610, CA
12 Dec 1985 [1986] 1 WLR 51, HL(E)
R v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Ex parte Gist-Brocades NV
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Subject Matter
PATENT — Extension — Transitional provisions — Existing patent for 16 years — Extension of patent for four years as new existing patent endorsed “licences of right” — Application to comptroller to settle terms of licence — Effective date of grant of licence — Whether comptroller having power to impose term prohibiting importation of patented article — Patents Act 1977, s 46(3)(a), Sch 1, para 4(1)(2) (c) — EEC Treaty (Cmnd 5179–II), arts 30, 36
[1986] 1 WLR 51, HL(E)
Appellate History
R v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Ex parte Gist-Brocades NV [1985] FSR 379, CA
Order of the Court of Appeal affirmed in part
R v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Ex parte Gist-Brocades NV [1986] 1 WLR 51, HL(E)
R v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Ex parte Gist-Brocades NV [1985] FSR 610, CA
Order of the Court of Appeal affirmed in part
R v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Ex parte Gist-Brocades NV [1986] 1 WLR 51, HL(E)