Case Law, Infringement, Inventive step, Litigation, Novelty, Prior art, Revocation, United Kingdom, Validity
Shedding light on implied disclosure and secondary evidence
Around this time last year, in Edwards Lifesciences v Boston Scientific [2017], His Honour Judge Hacon (sitting as a High Court Judge) had the opportunity to analyse two interesting aspects of UK patent law: (i) the law of implied disclosures and anticipation; and (ii) the importance of so-called secondary evidence in the evaluation of inventive…