Experience
Warner-Lambert Company LLC v. Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Warner-Lambert Company LLC v. Sandoz GmbH*
Warner-Lambert Company LLC
Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Sandoz GmbH
Represented Pfizer group Warner-Lambert in enforcing its second medical use patent for blockbuster drug Lyrica® (pregabalin) as a neuropathic pain treatment against numerous generic companies in the UK and across Europe. Heralded as the IP case of the decade in the UK, it was heard in the Supreme Court in 2018 (having previously been before the Court of Appeal twice) on the most difficult issues in English patent law namely plausibility and infringement of second medical use patents.
Warner-Lambert Company LLC v. Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Sandoz GmbH, [2015] EWHC 485 (Pat); Claim number: HC-2014-001795; [2015] EWHC 2548 (Pat); Claim numbers: HP-2014-000035, HP-2014-000021, and HC-2014-001795; [2015] EWHC 3153 (Pat); Claim number: HP-2015-000049; [2015] EWHC 3370 (Pat); Claim numbers: HP-2014-000035, HP-2014-000021, and HC-2014-001795; [2016] EWHC 3317 (Pat); Claim number: HP-2015-000049, Patents Court, Judge Arnold
Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Sandoz GmbH v. Warner-Lambert Company LLC, [2015] EWCA Civ 556; Appeal numbers: A3/2015/0221 and A3/2015/0669, Court of Appeal, Judges Arden, Ryder, Floyd
Warner-Lambert Company LLC v. Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Sandoz GmbH, [2015] EWHC 2919 (Pat); Claim number: HP-2014-000049; [2015] EWHC 2924 (Pat); Claim number: HP-2014-000049, Patents Court, Judge Birss
Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Sandoz GmbH v. Warner-Lambert Company LLC, [2016] EWCA Civ 1006; Appeal numbers: A3/2015/3415, A3/2015/3602, A3/2015/3615, and A3/2016/0017, Court of Appeal, Judges Patten, Kitchin, Floyd
Generics (UK) Ltd (t/a Mylan) & Actavis Group PTC ehf; Sandoz GmbH v. Warner-Lambert Company LLC, [2018] UKSC 56; Appeal number: UKSC 2016/0197, 2017/0069, and 2017/0078, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Judges Mance, Sumption, Reed, Hodge, Briggs
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