Miquel Montañá

Tomorrow is the deadline for persons with the qualifications required for appointment to judicial office in a state which is a contracting party to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court ("UPC") to…

As he recounted in Groucho and me (1959), Groucho Marx once sent a telegram to the Friar's Club of Beverly Hills with the following text: "Please accept my resignation.  I don't want to belong to any…

As the readers may know, what is referred to as a "protective writ" is an anticipatory defensive mechanism that a person that fears to be sued for patent infringement may use in countries such as…

Spanish Courts have recently decided two interesting cases that show that patent litigation is not the exclusive realm of big pharma or high tech. Patent litigation extends its tentacles to quotidian…

A long time has already passed since 23 October 2001, when Judge Jacob ordered a preliminary injunction preventing the launch of the first paroxetine generics in England.  To cut a long story short,…

As the readers will know, one of the possible methods used by the European Patent Office ("EPO") to examine inventive step is the so-called "problem & solution" approach, which has three parts: i)…

This morning the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") added a new extravagant decision to the long list of odd judgments on intellectual property matters that during the last stages of negotiation of…

On 10 June 2013 the Court of Appeal of Barcelona handed down a very interesting decision that appears to have written the penultimate word in the long saga of decisions discussing the meaning of …

Patent trolls, also called "non-practicing entities" ("NPE"), a rather more elegant name, have become a serious threat to the patent system, particularly in the IT arena in the United States ("U.S.")…