On Friday 16 May 2008, the High Court rejected DuPont’s application for special leave seeking to appeal a finding of the Full Federal Court that ICI was not estopped from defending patent opposition proceedings brought by DuPont. The opposed patent was a divisional application, the parent of which had previously been held invalid by Branson J of the Federal Court. The transcript is here.

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