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This report highlights the main UK patent decisions from 2017, including a major Supreme Court infringement case introducing a doctrine of equivalents, the first ruling on FRAND royalty rates and injunctions, compensation for employee inventors, legal priority, patentable subject matter, and a novel, unsuccessful attempt by the State to sue a pharmaceutical company whose invalid patents delayed the entry of generics.
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Powles, J., & Liddicoat, J. (2018). United Kingdom Patent Decisions 2017. IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 49(3), 318–323. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40319-018-0684-4
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