A Victory for Innovative Employees? – Shanks v Unilever Plc (Case Comment) 

Bibliography  

Primary Sources  

UK Cases  

British Steel plc’s Patent, In re [1992] RPC 117 

GEC Avionics Ltd’s Patent, In re [1992] RPC 107 

Kelly v GE Healthcare Ltd [2009] EWHC 181 (Pat), [2009] RPC 363, [2009] 2 WLUK 263 (Ch D (Patents Ct)) 

Memco-Med’s Patent, In re [1992] RPC 403 

Shanks v Unilever Plc [2019] UKSC 45, [2019] 1 WLR 5997, [2019] 10 WLUK 312 (SC) 

UK Primary Legislation  

Patents Act 1977 

Other Jurisdiction 

Act on the Right to Employee Inventions 1949, Sweden 

Employees’ Invention Act 1957, German 

National Patent Law 2009, China  

Secondary Sources  

Journals 

Broderick T, ‘Shanks v Unilever – opening the floodgates?’ [2019] IT Law Today 5 

Dunlop H,  and Strath J, ‘Shanks v Unilever: the sweet smell of success’ [2020] 15 JIPLP 76 

Flett E, and Patten J, ‘Shanks v Unilever: Supreme Court lowers the bar for finding an outstanding benefit from employee inventions’ [2020] 42 EIPR 126 

Howell C, ‘Extra compensation for inventive employees: is our system equitable, unbiased and motivating?’ [2011] 4 IPQ 371 

Web Resources  

Duffin E, ‘Ranking of the 10 countries who filed the most international patent applications in 2019’ (Statista, July 2020) <https://www.statista.com/statistics/256845/ranking-of-the-10-countries-who-filed-the-most-international-patent-applications/> accessed 13 November 2020 

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