Interview: UK Supreme Court Justice Lord Kitchin

Abstract

In an exclusive interview with Patent Strategy, UK Supreme Court Justice Lord Kitchin discusses the future of UK IP law, AI, Actavis v Icos, and whether he chats to his fellow judges on Whatsapp Arriving on what was the hottest July day ever recorded, Justice of the UK Supreme Court David Kitchin very kindly invited us into his air conditioned office and then promptly asks if we would like a cup of tea. [...]we accepted. The Court of Appeal ruled the patent was obvious because a skilled team would have conducted dose studies, and even though they initially discovered the therapeutic plateau, the team would "very likely" carry on experimenting and eventually arrive at the invention.