20 February Case Updates Kohler Mira Limited v Norcros Group (Holdings) Limited [2024] EWHC 3247 (Ch) Patent Law, 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 16. Criticism and Complaints, Prior Art, CV Writing, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 15. Giving Oral Evidence The judge preferred the evidence of the Claimant's expert because of the Defendant's expert’s approach to his task as expert, his confusion over the proper approach to what prior art was and was not in the common general knowledge, the number of assertions he made which he was forced to resile from as incorrect, and his failure to acknowledge a key fact.
8 April Case Updates Dr Vanessa Hill v Touchlight Genetics Limited [2024] EWHC 533 (Pat) Patent Law, Scientific Advisor, Senior Courts Act 1981, 06. Rules and Regulations In considering whether to appoint a scientific advisor or order the exchange of expert evidence, the judge in a patent case considered the dividing line between the two roles.