In September of 2013 the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office ("SPTO") published a draft Patents Act, which will hopefully be approved by Parliament within the next few months, assuming that the…
On 12 September 2014, the Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15) handed down a decision confirming a preliminary injunction preventing a Spanish company from marketing capsules claimed to be…
As readers well know, over the years many patent offices around the world have opened the door to the patentability of so-called "second medical uses" to foster research on possible solutions to…
As the readers well know, the European Patent Convention ("EPC") system allows the validity of European patents to be challenged through two different routes: (i) oppositions filed before the…
On 17 July 2014, Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón issued his opinion in Case C-364/13 International Stem Cell Corporation v. Comptroller General of Patents, whereby he proposed that the Court of…
One of the most salient aspects of the draft of the new Spanish Patent Act which Spain's Parliament will be discussing in the coming months is the dramatic modification of the legal regime governing…
1 July appears to be a date prone to attract landmark historical events. On 1 July 1751, for example, the first issue of Denis Diderot & Jean Le Rond d' Alembert's Enciclopedia was published in Paris…
Those who embraced a deceptive feeling of easiness when they saw Articles 6 – 8 vanish from the text of Regulation (EU) Nº 1257/2012 of the European Parliament and the Council of 17 December 2012…
Commercial Court number 5 of Barcelona recently handed down a judgment dated 28 March 2014 ordering a defendant to cease manufacturing and marketing coffee capsules that are compatible with Nespresso…
