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  Jane Lambert    Group moderator

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  Patent Licensing: An interesting case on the construction of technology licence agreements

  I thought that colleagues from other countries - particularly those in Continental Europe and other civil law countries - might like to read the recent judgment of Mr Peter Prescott QC sitting as a deputy judge in our Patents Court in Oxonica Energy Ltd v Neuftec Ltd [2008] EWHC 2127 (Pat) (05 September 2008). The transcript appears on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute at http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2008/2127.html. Colleagues may also like to read my post on the case which appears on my blog at http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2008/09/licensing-dangers-of-pre....
  
  Visitors to my blog should not be deterred by the pop up from IP Newsflash that you should have at least 6 news items before you know what they are. Just click the button. As I am not sure that I have mentioned IP Newsflash before I'd like to thank our friend and moderator, Rolf Claessen, who appears to have provided this service. It is one of the gadgets on Blogger and I commend it to other bloggers, web masters and web mistresses.
  
  I would be pleased to learn how other countries' courts would have construed a technology licensing agreement like the one in Oxonica. Am I right in thinking that the result would have been the same had it come before a court in France or Germany. What about the USA?
  This post was modified on 28 Sep 2008 at 01:08 pm.
  • 28 Sep 2008, 12:55 pm
  Jane Lambert wrote: > I thought that colleagues from other countries - particularly those > in Continental Europe and other civil law countries - might like to > read the recent judgment of Mr Peter Prescott QC sitting as a deputy > judge in our Patents Court in Oxonica Energy Ltd v Neuftec Ltd [2008] > EWHC 2127 (Pat) (05 September 2008). The transcript appears on the > British and Irish Legal Information Institute at > http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Patents/2008/2127.html. > Colleagues may also like to read my post on the case which appears on > my blog at > http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2008/09/licensing-dangers-of-precedents-ox > onica.html. > > Visitors to my blog should not be deterred by the pop up from IP > Newsflash that you should have at least 6 news items before you know > what they are. Just click the button. As I am not sure that I have > mentioned IP Newsflash before I'd like to thank our friend and > moderator, Rolf Claessen, who appears to have provided this service. > It is one of the gadgets on Blogger and I commend it to other > bloggers, web masters and web mistresses. > > I would be pleased to learn how other countries' courts would have > construed a technology licensing agreement like the one in Oxonica. > Am I right in thinking that the result would have been the same had > it come before a court in France or Germany. What about the USA?