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28 Oct 2019, 1:25 am
Colworth House, Unilever's Research and Development Facility Author  Lecomte99   Copyright waived by the author   Source Wikipedia Colworth House Jane Lambert Supreme Court (Lady Hale, Lord Reed, Lord Hodge, Lady Black and Lord Kitchin) Shanks v Unilever Plc  [2019] UKSC 45 (23 Oct 2019) Nowadays most commercially successful inventions in the United Kingdom are made by [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 3:15 am
Shanks v Unilever plc and others [2009] EWHC 3164 (Ch); [2009] WLR (D) 354 "The words 'that person' in s 41(2) of the Patents Act 1977 referred to a notional non-connected counterparty operating in the appropriate market at the appropriate time. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 2:42 am by sally
Shanks v Unilever plc and others [2010] EWCA Civ 1283; [2010] WLR (D) 300 “‘That person’ in s 41(2) of the Patents Act 1977 meant the actual assignee with its actual attributes rather than a notional non-connected counterparty operating in the appropriate market at the appropriate time. [read post]
27 May 2014, 12:15 am
It's Shanks v Unilever Plc & Others [2014] EWHC 1647 (Pat), a Patents Court for England and Wales ruling of the indefatigable Mr Justice Arnold. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 11:33 am by Peter Groves
Or did, until today.That case has now given us Shanks v Unilever Plc & Ors [2019] UKSC 45 (23 October 2019) in which Lord Kitchin (with whom the other Supremes, unsurprisingly given his background in IP law, agreed) warned that tribunals “should be very cautious before accepting a submission that a patent has not been of outstanding benefit to an employer simply because it has had no significant impact on its overall profitability or the value of all of its sales”.A… [read post]
8 Apr 2021, 6:20 am by Neil Wilkof
If there is a place in the world to come for iconic copyright disputes, then surely the 1990’s Israeli case of Kimron v. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 5:00 pm
To download a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: People v Gayle     [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 10:43 am by Arnie Clarke
Shanks was employed to invent and, in making the invention, did what he was employed to do. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 6:22 am by The Editor , CMS
Aisling O’Dwyer, an associate in the IP team and Ella Wells, a trainee patent attorney at CMS, comment on the decision which is awaited in the matter of Shanks v Unilever Plc & Ors. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 7:48 am
This morning the UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shanks v Unilever ([2019] UKSC 45) concerning Professor Shanks' long battle to receive compensation for his invention from his former employer, Unilever. [read post]
1 Nov 2019, 9:16 am
Since the release of the UK Supreme Court's decision in Unilever v Shanks [2019] UKSC 45 (IPKat post here) the mainstream and social media have been awash with hyperbole as to the potential impact of the decision on large employers. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 3:10 am by Matrix Legal Support Service
Over time, Unilever derived a net benefit from the Shanks patents of approximately £24.3 million. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 1:26 am
  The Court of Appeal has provided guidance on the relevance of this issue to the question of "outstanding benefit" in the long running dispute of Shanks v Unilever PLC and others [2017] EWCA Civ 2. [read post]