17 Oct 2012
SNE ENGINEERING CO LTD v. HSIN CHONG CONSTRUCTION CO LTD AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- SNE ENGINEERING CO LTD v. HSIN CHONG CONSTRUCTION CO LTD AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1466/2012
The court held that a defendant may apply to strike out a patent infringement claim but the strike‑out application must succeed only in plain and obvious cases; here it was not plain and obvious that the patent was invalid on the material before the court (factual and technical disputes, possible confidentiality of disclosures and need for expert evidence), therefore the 1st defendant's strike‑out application was dismissed and the matter must proceed to trial.