“…Until the decision of the Supreme Court in Actavis UK Ltd v Eli Lilly and Co [2017] UKSC 48, [2017] RPC 21 the extent of the protection given to a patentee by a patent claim was regarded as a unitary process of construction. In applying principles of construction to…”
“…The position remained settled until the decision of the Supreme Court in Actavis UK Ltd v Eli Lilly & Co [2017] UKSC 48, [2017] RPC 21. Lord Neuberger, with whom the other members of the court agreed, explained (at [54]) that, notwithstanding what Lord Diplock had said in Catnic, a problem of …”