The Court of Appeal refused to allow a re-trial due to the bias shown by the Patents Court judge in the original hearing, and the decision in March (2002) of the Patents Court of the High Court Chancery Division, which declared the formulation patents (EP 247 983 and EP 496 437) invalid due to obviousness, was affirmed.

The UK represented 4.3 percent of Losec’s worldwide sales in 2001.

October 22, 2002