21 Oct 2021
1. ) MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORPORATION 2. ) MERCK SHARP & DOHME (M) SDN. BHD. (Co. No.: 60181-P) HOVID BHD. Co. No.: 58476-A)
- Citation
- 21IP-72-12/2014 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
- Court
- High Court
- Case number
- 21IP-72-12/2014 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
Dependent claims 14,15 and 20 are Type 1 but are not automatically invalid because independent claim 1 was invalidated; the court must undertake a separate evidential exercise using the POSITA's expert evidence and common general knowledge to determine whether prior art contains the same features. On the evidence (POSITA team of endocrinologist and gastroenterologist and contemporaneous literature), dependent claims 14,15 and 20 involve an inventive step and are valid; the defendant's 70 mg alendronate tablet product infringes those dependent claims; post-trial discovery is granted to enable…