UK Rocket Docket

We also report here on the case of Wake Forest University Health Sciences v Smith & Nephew. This is an interesting case from the point of view of application of the “Windsurfing” approach to obviousness, but it is also extraordinary from a procedural point of view. With certain agreed concessions, such as limiting the prior art to just one document, the entire case proceeded through the Patents Court and the Court of Appeal in only 7 months!