Richard Price – Partner
Carmelite
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Richard Price is a partner specialising in intellectual property. He is recognised as one of the leading patent and trade mark litigators in the UK and as a leading individual in the Chambers legal directory. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
He is one of the very few English lawyers to have had the conduct of cases in all the main areas of IP law, taken them to the highest Courts in the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the Privy Council), and won them all.
Examples of major cases Richard has conducted include:
- Asahi Chemical Co in its successful appeal to the House of Lords (cancer-inhibiting genetic engineering patent).
- Canon Inc in the last civil appeal from Hong Kong to the Privy Council (toner cartridges for printers and photocopiers - copyright and patent).
- JIF Lemon House of Lords case for Reckitt & Colman plc (now Reckitt Benckiser plc) - the leading trade dress passing off case.
- Healing Herbs Limited in its successful application to have BACH and BACH FLOWER REMEDIES trade mark registrations declared generic and revoked for flower remedies made in accordance with the original directions of Dr Edward Bach. Successful in trial, Court of Appeal and House of Lords (the leading UK case on generic marks.)
- Hoechst Celanese Corporation against BP Chemicals on a major patent infringement action (purifying acetic acid) which led to the first account of profits trial in England for over a century and a very successful settlement.
- Johnson Wax’s successful defence against Sara Lee's patent infringement action (household products; hydrodynamics) at trial and appeal; and responsible for the successful defence in parallel proceedings in France (up to the Supreme Court) and Denmark (up to the Court of Appeal).
- ev3 Group of Companies in patent litigation with the University of California/Boston Scientific Limited (Ireland) (interventional neuroradiological system for treating brain aneurysms) including deposing witnesses under US Civil Code s1782 in the Northern District of California resulting in the UK European patent being expunged; coordinating with Germany, the Netherlands and the USA, and in the EPO.
- Cargill Corporation in its successful defence of patent infringement proceedings against Monsanto Inc. in the first UK patent trial concerning genetically modified crops (trial July 2007; judgment November 2007).
- Abbott Laboratories in its successful application against Evysio (and Medtronic) to have three patents on coronary stents declared not infringed and/or invalid (trial February 2008; judgment April 2008).
- W. L. Gore & Associates against Perouse Laboratories in patent infringement and revocation proceedings on abdominal stents (trial March 2008; settled successfully).
- W. L. Gore & Associates GmbH against Geox SpA in patent infringement and revocation proceedings concerning waterproof and breathable soles for footwear (trial September 2008).
Richard advises clients in a wide range of sectors including medical devices, polymer products, household products, electronic equipment and computer chips. Current cases include those concerning patents on genetically modified crops, coronary stents, abdominal and aortic stents and a very large trade mark revocation action in OHIM concerning Bach flower remedies.
He was Secretary, Patent Solicitors Association (1982-1994), which became the (British) Intellectual Property Lawyers Association; Chairman, Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (1994-1997); Chairman of Bristol University Postgraduate IP Diploma Law Patents Workshop (1991 to 2008).
In May 2006, he was the UK IP litigation member of a UK Government-sponsored delegation to China which conducted a Judicial Seminar in Hangzhou and gave talks on UK litigation to Judges of the High Court and held meetings with senior Judges in Shanghai, and with members of the People's Supreme Court in Beijing.
He is a founder member of the Global Patent Litigation Project.
Richard is a Bachelor of Laws, University of Bristol (1964-67) and obtained his Law Society qualifications from the College of Law, Guildford, qualifying as a Solicitor in 1970.