3 Nov 2010
AVENTIS PHARMA SA AND ANOR V PHARMACO (NZ) LIMITED AND ANOR HC AK CIV-2010-404-001670
- Citation
- openlaw-d0a7c417_9aaf_4090_a914_ec4c86e8b193.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The Court declined to consolidate or order the proceedings heard together because the judicial review and patent proceedings raise discrete issues with limited factual and legal overlap, the judicial review was ready for a short hearing sooner and could be determinative of the patent proceeding, and Aventis was adequately protected by the availability of damages given the impending patent expiry and prior refusal of interim injunction; accordingly the JR was to be given an early fixture and the patent proceedings to continue their own timetable.