Miquel Montañá

On 12 February 2019, the Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15) issued an interesting judgment clarifying the role played by "drawings" for the purpose of interpreting the scope of protection of a…

One has to have a lot of courage to accept the task of coordinating a book on Supplementary Protection Certificates ("SPCs"). The immense variety of the facts discussed in the numerous cases that…

During the 2018 Mobile World Congress ("MWC"), Barcelona Commercial Court number 1 ordered a preliminary injunction preventing a company that was taking part in the Congress from continuing to market…

As discussed in our blog of 30 May 2018, the EU Commission has proposed an amendment to Regulation (EC) 469/2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products ("SPC…

A recent judgment of 18 December 2018 from the Barcelona Court of Appeal has partially reversed a judgment of 9 December 2016 from Barcelona Commercial Court number 4, which had rejected the locus…

The Mobile Word Congress ("MWC") is the largest mobile trade event in the world and one of the most significant trade fairs taking place in Barcelona. More than 105,000 people attended previous…

As already reported by Kluwer Patent Blog, on 5 December 2018 (case T 1063/18) the EPO's Technical Board of Appeal 3304 found that Rule 28 (2) is contrary to article 53 of the European Patent…

In its judgment of 25 July 2018 (Case C-121/17 Teva v. Gilead), the CJEU had its latest say on the interpretation of article 3 (a) of Regulation (EC) 469/2009 concerning the Supplemental Protection…

Over the last decade, one of the topics typically discussed in patent proceedings in Spain has been to what extent the validity of the patent may be analysed in preliminary injunction proceedings. In…