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SABAF SPA v MENEGHETTI SPA
Before: LORD JUSTICE PETER GIBSON, LORD JUSTICE JONATHAN PARKER, LORD JUSTICE LONGMORE July 11, 20021
[2002] EWCA Civ 976; [2003] R.P.C. 14
Patent—Burners for gas hobs—Inventive step—Collocation of two known concepts—Whether obvious to combine them—Infringement—Importation—Whether seller who made contract of carriage imported the product—Joint tortfeasance—Whether defendant had made the infringing act his own by combining to secure that it was done.
1 Paragraph numbers in this judgment are as assigned by the court.