Patents: Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd
Author Kamyar Ali Licence CC BY 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons South Park, Oxford Jane Lambert Patents Count (Daniel Alexander KC) Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat) (23 Dec 2022) This was an action by Oxford University Innovations Ltd , ("OUI") to recover the royalties due under a licence agreement that it had entered with Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd . ("ONI") on 26 April 2016. OUI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxford University. Mr Daniel Alexander KC, who tried the action as a deputy judge of the High Court, described OUI as "the technology transfer arm of the University". OUI owns the patents and other intellectual property rights relating to a compact, super-resolution imaging device known as the "Nanoimager". The device was largely invented by one Bo Jing initially while he was employed as an intern and later while he was a DPhil student at the University. Mr Jing is now a director and ...