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Secretary of State for Health and another (Appellants) v Servier Laboratories Ltd and others (Respondents) [2021] UKSC 24; UKSC 2019/0172.

  • 2 July 2021: Supreme Court judgment handed down.
  • 14 April 2021: Hearing before the Supreme Court.
  • 11 March 2020: Permission to appeal to the Supreme Court granted.
  • 12 July 2019: Court of Appeal judgment delivered.

Damages claim arising from injunctions in patent proceedings

The matter relates to Servier’s enforcement of the UK designation of its patent for the alpha crystalline form of the tert‑butylamine salt of perindopril—including the securing of injunctions against other pharmaceutical companies—and the subsequent finding that the patent was invalid. The Secretary of State for Health (SoS) purchases medicines on behalf of the NHS...

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