Technological innovation has left deep footprints on the evolution of International Law. In the mid-1960s, in his course at The Hague Academy of International Law, professor Mouton explained that…
In a world of increasing legal complexity, it is a common ground – except in Luxembourg – that the lack of specialisation results in the administration of injustice rather than in the administration…
The legendary deficient regulation of supplementary protection certificates ("SPCs") has caused the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (the "SPTO") and Spanish Courts to struggle as to whether or…
On 15 October 2014 the Spanish Supreme Court confirmed its earlier rulings on two issues: after an IP right has been found invalid in first instance but the Court of Appeal overturns this decision…
As announced by the Kluwer UPC News blogger earlier today, this morning the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") published its two judgments in cases C-146/13 and C-147/13 where, as…
In September of 2013, the Spanish Patents and Trademarks Office ("SPTO") published a draft Patents Act aimed at modernising the old Act 11/1986, of 20 March, on Patents, which is close to celebrating…
The OCR ("Old Combination Room") at Christ College is a lovely, warm and inspiring pine-paneled room located at the heart of one of the most traditional colleges at Cambridge University. For many…
In the blog published on 17 March 2015, we discussed the judgment dated 12 March 2015 of the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") handed down in response to the preliminary questions…
On 12 March 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") published the judgment announced in our last blog in Case C-577/13, in response to some of the preliminary questions referred by…
