Key points to take away from recent UK cases on patent licence agreements
Cases concerning patent licences in the English courts are a bit like London buses: you don’t see any for a very long time and then three turn up at once.
In this article, Matthew Warren, Sean Hess and Sebastian Stewart discuss:
- Eteboxagu AB v Cycle Pharmaceuticals Ltd [2023] EWHC 462 (Comm)
- Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat)
- AstraZeneca UK Ltd v Tesaro, Inc. [2023] EWHC 803 (Ch)


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