A judgment of 7 July 2021 from the Spanish Supreme Court has been published, which, as discussed below, following the case law from the EPO's Boards of Appeal, introduces certain guidelines for…
In our blog of 27 August 2021, we explained that the Barcelona Appeal Court (Section 15), in a very interesting Ruling of 16 October 2020, decided that the claims as amended before the EPO Boards of…
For many years, due to the rigidity of Spanish civil procedure, it was very difficult, if not impossible, to accommodate in national infringement proceedings events that may have taken place in…
As readers familiar with the telecoms sector will be well aware, Barcelona hosts every February the Mobile World Congress ("MWC"), the most important international trade fair in this field. Due to…
As any aficionado of American legal history will be well aware, Judge Holmes, the third most cited American legal scholar of the 20th century, was nicknamed "the Great Dissenter." This was a tribute…
The long and winding road, as The Beatles would put it, that led to the judgments of the CJEU in Teva et altri v. Gilead Sciences (Case C-121/17) and Royalty Pharma v. Deutsches Patent und Markenamt …
On 28 December 2020, the Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15), one of Spain's most experienced courts on patent matters, handed down a judgment which is interesting from a wide array of…
From time to time, one may find publications that seek to explore the influence that the Bible may have had on patent law. A classic example is Exodus 20:15: "You shall not steal." Another sometimes…
A recent judgment of 13 November 2020 from the Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15) has brought to the fore again the thorny topic of "indirect" or "contributory" infringement. The difficulty of…
