United Kingdom Patent Decisions 2018

This report highlights the main UK patent decisions from 2018, including: a major Supreme Court decision concerning sufficiency, more specifically plausibility, and infringement in relation to second medical use claims; Court of Appeal decisions on global FRAND licences and FRAND injunctions, applying the Actavis v. Eli Lilly questions concerning the doctrine of equivalents, enablement, claim construction and infringement, novelty of overlapping numerical ranges, and obviousness; and Patents Court decisions concerning interim applications, a jurisdiction challenge in the context of a FRAND licensing dispute, obviousness/inventive step, and injunctive relief.