In Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd v Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL [2019] EWCA Civ 38, the English Court of Appeal (Floyd LJ, Patten and Flaux LJJ concurring) heard an appeal from a challenge to the jurisdiction of English courts to determine the validity of patents in a portfolio of rights from different countries.

In Actavis Group PTC EHF v ICOS Corp [2019] UKSC 15, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom considered whether, for the purposes of the Patents Act 1977 (UK), a dosage patent involved an inventive step, or failed because of obviousness.

In Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v SZMTA [2019] HCA 3, the High Court of Australia heard appeals from the Full Court of the Federal Court relating to notifications to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (the Tribunal) that s 438 of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) applies to a document or information.

In Northern Land Council v Quall [2019] FCAFC 77, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia (Griffiths and White JJ, Mortimer J concurring) clarified the identity of the entity that is empowered to certify an application for an indigenous land use agreement (area agreement) for the purposes of s 24CG of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth).