Intervet UK Ltd v Merial R.'s University of Belfast the University of Saskatchewan

Michael Tappin QC and Charlotte May (instructed by Howrey LLP) for the Claimant Simon Thorley QC and Justin Turner QC (instructed by Bird & Bird LLP) for the Defendants Hearing dates: 3-5, 8-9, 11-12 February 2010 ____________________

i) PCV was a contaminant of laboratory cell line PK/15 (a porcine kidney cell line). Most of the publications about PCV related to this PCV, PCV PK/15, which Tischer had described how to isolate and culture.

iii) Antibodies cross-reactive to PCV PK/15 had been found to be widespread in pig herds in both Europe and North America.

iv) PCV PK/15 was known to be a non-enveloped circovirus, with a circular single-stranded DNA genome of about 1.76 kb.

Type II porcine circovirus specific antigen and type II porcine circovirus specific antibody