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…
The messy case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") on supplementary protection certificates ("SPC") that protect "combinations" of pharmaceutical products has left many…
On 30 January 2014 the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") handed down two Decisions in response to two preliminary rulings sought by the same Greek Court that referred the questions…
On 22 October 2013 the Provincial Court of Barcelona (Section 15) handed down a controversial judgment revoking a patent due to lack of inventive activity relying on a technical report prepared by an…
UPC aficionados will be interested to learn that the 16th draft of the Rules of Procedure was unveiled yesterday.
Readers will remember that the previous draft was published on 31 May 2013. Since…
The readers will recall that on 18 July 2013, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") handed down its controversial judgment in case C‑414/11 Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH v…
The Court of Appeal of Burgos dismissed the appeal against the Judgment of the Provincial Court of Burgos, which upheld a patent for a pharmaceutical composition and its use, despite the fact that…
One of the "co-lateral" damages expected from the latest Pixar Films' type of productions coming from the European Commission (the European patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (…
As my colleague Rik Lambers, from Brinkhof, reported in the blog he posted last Thursday (12 December 2013), that day was a big day for Supplementary Protection Certificate ("SPC") aficionados, since…
