PhotoCure ASA v Queen's University at Kingston [2005] FCA 344

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

PhotoCure ASA v Queen's University at Kingston [2005] FCA 344

PATENTS – invention claimed for a method of detection and treatment of malignant and non-malignant lesions by photochemotherapy – whether patent invalid on grounds of obviousness, lack of novelty, lack of sufficiency and best method, lack of definition or lack of fair basis – whether the patent is infringed in substance by a variant that does not have a material effect on the way the invention works – consideration of the principles to be applied in determining a claim of infringement in substance when no claim is infringed on a textual approach to construction of the patent

Patents Act 1990 (Cth) ss 7, 40(2)(a), 40(2)(b), 117, 138(3)(b) and 234 and Sch 1 Patents Act 1952 (Cth) s 100(1)(e)

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