CA-2025-001040-A - [2025] EWCA Civ 924

Fecha: 21-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 924

Case No: CA-2025-001040-A

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LIST (Ch), PATENTS COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 21 July 2025

Before :

LORD JUSTICE ARNOLD

LORD JUSTICE STUART-SMITH
and

LADY JUSTICE ANDREWS

Between :

(1) ASTRAZENECA AB (2) ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED	Applicants
- and -
(1) GENERICS (U.K.) LIMITED (2) TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED AND TEVA UK LIMITED (3) GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS EUROPE LIMITED (4) SANDOZ LIMITED (5) BESTWAY PHARMACY NDC LIMITED - and -	Respondents
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE	Intervenor

Geoffrey Pritchard KC, Thomas Lunt and Dheemanth Vangimalla (instructed by Freshfields LLP) for the Applicants

Mark Vanhegan KC and Adam Gamsa (instructed by Taylor Wessing LLP) for Viatris

Anna Edwards-Stuart KC and Tim Austen (instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP) for Teva

James Abrahams KC (instructed by Powell Gilbert LLP) for Glenmark

Jeff Chapman KC and Simon Paul (instructed by Pinsent Masons LLP) for Sandoz and Bestway

Jonathan Moss (instructed by the Government Legal Department) for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Hearing date : 16 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 21 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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Lord Justice Arnold: