Using a process and offering a process for use in the UK
constitutes an infringement, if it can be shown that the defendant
knew, or it would have been obvious to a reasonable person, that
the unauthorised use of the process would be an infringement of
the patent.
A person infringes a process patent if they dispose of, offer to
dispose or, use, import, or keep any product derived from that
process.
An important condition is that there must be a direct relationship
between the process and the product in question. The notion of
“direct relationship” is discussed in Pioneer Electronics v Warner
Music 1997.
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