Case by Case | Court of Appeal confirms scope for reliance on dependent claims in revocation proceedings

In today's episode, Rebekka Thomas discusses the Court of Appeal decision in Fujifilm v Kodak concerning EP 3 476 616, relating to lithographic printing plate precursors, manufacturing methods and printing methods.The Court overturned the Mannheim Local Division’s (LD) revocation of the patent and dismissal of Fujifilm’s infringement action, holding that a patentee may rely on granted dependent claims and claim combinations already encompassed by the patent as granted without filing an auxiliary request.Find out more about UPC cases here.If you have any feedback, questions, or comments, please email us at [email protected] all the episodes as we release them here. Follow us on LinkedIn.