Posted by: Ophir Tal in USPTO, US, United States, United Kingdom, UK-IPO, UK, russia, PPH, Patent Prosecution Highway, Patent Prosecution, patent, Japan, Israel, intellectual property, Great Britain, Europe, EPO, Denemark, Canada, Austria, Australia on
Dec 08, 2008
An Israeli company by the name of AEROTEL LTD lost its right to a patent for telephone systems in a ruling made by the high court of justice chancery division (patents court) of England ("the High Court") on May 23, 2008.
The Israeli company sued WaveCrest (a pre-paid calling card company) for infringement of its patent, which was granted to her on 1985 on a new way of making pre-paid phone calls from any telephone (The Patent relates basically to a method of making pre-paid telephone calls which is available for use from any telephone and to hardware for doing so). Although this patent was more than 20 years old and therefore expired, the sides litigated over alleged infringements when the patent was in force.
The High Court ruled that the idea behind the patent was not new and was
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