4 Mar 2011
BALLANCE AGRI-NUTRIENTS LTD V RAVENSDOWN FERTILISER CO-OP LTD & LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HC AK CIV-2009-404-002171
- Citation
- openlaw-52e76a56_0291_4b1c_a521_a1bd1c62fb46.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The High Court upheld the Assistant Commissioner's determinations: the amendments to claims were permissible as explanatory/disclaimer, the skilled addressee was correctly characterised, the priority date is the provisional filing date (2 August 2002), the claimed method was not anticipated by the NZ Agrichemical Manual, the Cookson & Cornforth abstract or the SupaCrop brochure, prior uses relied on did not disclose the claimed method or purposes (Cookson/Cornforth trial; Saunders' SupaCrop use), the claimed method was not obvious to the skilled addressee on the prior art/uses, and the claime…