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Intellectual property

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd & Anor v ZTE Corporation & Ors

High Court patents judgment on Samsung’s 5G patent. The court addressed skilled person, inventive step, collocation, and plausibility arguments over an NR initial-access claim.

  • Inventive step
  • Collocation
  • Technical effect
  • Plausibility
  • Claim construction
  • Standard essential patents
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Intellectual property [2020] EWHC 1706 (Pat)

Lenovo (Singapore) PTE Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents

Lenovo (Singapore) PTE Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2020] EWHC 1706 (Pat) (09 July 2020)

Patent appeal allowed: the court held that Lenovo’s contactless payment invention was not excluded as a computer program or business method as such.

  • Patentability
  • Excluded subject matter
  • Computer programs
  • Business methods
  • Technical effect
  • Patent-law
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Intellectual property

AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP, Re

The High Court held that AT&T and CVON’s patent applications were not patentable because each claimed invention was no more than a computerised business method.

  • Patentability
  • Excluded subject matter
  • Technical effect
  • Computer programs
  • Business methods
  • Excluded-subject-matter
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Intellectual property law [2009] EWHC 343 (Pat)

AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP, Re

AT&T Knowledge Ventures LP, Re [2009] EWHC 343 (Pat) (03 March 2009)

The High Court dismissed appeals by AT&T and CVON against UKIPO refusals, holding their inventions were excluded from patentability as non-technical computer-implemented business methods.

  • Patentability
  • Excluded subject matter
  • Computer programs
  • Business methods
  • Technical effect
  • Excluded-subject-matter
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