UK Court of Appeal applies Actavis in ice rink patent case

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UK Court of Appeal applies Actavis in ice rink patent case

David Kitchin

Reiterating the new “markedly different” approach to questions of infringement, Lord Justice Kitchin in a recent case found that Ice-World's patent was invalid but Icescape’s temporary ice-rink would have infringed as an immaterial variant

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