South Africa Case Law

Stauffer Chemical Company and Another v Safsan Marketing and Distribution (85/86)

Stauffer Chemical Company and Another v Safsan Marketing and Distribution (85/86) [1986] ZASCA 78 (18 August 1986)

Court

Supreme Court of Appeal

Case number

85/86

Judges

Corbett, Viljoen, Hefer, Galgut, Nicholas

The court dismissed an appeal in a patent dispute, holding that GENEP PLUS did not infringe claim 1 because the relevant R2 radical was not an essential equivalent.

• Patent Infringement
• Chemical Equivalence
• Essential Integers
• Interpretation Of Claims
• Doctrine Of Equivalents
• Patent-infringement