Looking at the pharmaceutical law reform package prepared by the European Commission it is clear that, quite sadly, incentivizing inventions and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry no longer…
As patent aficionados are well aware, after the European Patent Office ("EPO") published Decision G 0002/21, there was widespread expectation across Europe regarding whether or not the few national…
A recent reform of the Spanish Civil Procedure Act will introduce what the Recitals of Organic Law 1/2015 (“the Law”) call “other adequate means of dispute resolution in the non-jurisdictional route,…
Last Tuesday, the big news in the patent world was of course that the UPC’s Court of First Instance (CFI), Düsseldorf Division, in case 355/2023, found that if the defendant is domiciled in a…
This morning, the Barcelona Appeal Court has announced a judgment of 18 July 2024, reversing the judgment of 15 January 2024 from Commercial Court number 4 of Barcelona, which had found patent EP 1…
As most readers will be well aware, one of the hottest topics in the patent world is the broadening of the Bolar provision envisaged in the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of…
As William Blake put it in Auguries of Innocence, written in 1803 but not published until 1863, "A Robin Redbreast in a cage, puts all heaven in a rage". So did the ill-crafted concept of…
As readers will be well aware, one of the preferred hobbies of the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") is to issue controversial judgments in intellectual property matters which, quite…
When the Unified Patent Court ("UPC") endeavour was in the process of being designed back in the day, its architects presented the project as an example of a one-in-a-kind cosmopolitan litigation…
