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After its first year of existence, the Swiss Federal Patent Court has slightly amended its Guidelines on…
In a recent decision the new Swiss Federal Patent Court confirmed that it adheres to the case law with regard of the wording of prayers for relief in Swiss patent proceedings. Unlike in other…
In a decision dated 14 June 2012, the Swiss Federal Patent Court granted a patent holder's request for preliminary taking of evidence by means of the creation of a precise description of an allegedly…
The numerus clausus of legally permissible pieces of evidence in the new Swiss Civil Procedure Code (CPC) – unlike in many other codes of civil procedure – does not provide for private expert…
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court rendered its first decision regarding the new pre-trial taking of evidence proceeding in Switzerland's new Code of Civil Procedure Law (ZPO) and in the Swiss Patent…
As per January 1, 2012 the Swiss Federal Patent Court became effective.
The Federal Patent Court is exclusively competent for:
a. validity and infringement disputes and actions for issuing a license…
In a recently published decision the Swiss Federal Supreme Court clarified some particularities of the former Swiss Patent Act regarding the amendment of patent claims during prosecution proceedings…
The gentle reader of this blog knows that on January 1, 2012 the new Federal Patent Court will take up work in Switzerland. As Switzerland's court of first instance in matters dealing with patents,…
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court held in a recent decision that the Swiss company Teva Pharma AG had to bear the court costs and reimburse Novartis's attorneys' fees in preliminary injunction…
