Remember the caps? In March 2021 this blog asked what it is with the Dutch and money, and reported that the Dutch patent courts had put indication tariffs on recoverable legal costs. Simple case,…
In two of its recent decisions (apixaban and sacubitril-valsartan), the Czech Industrial Property Office (CZ IPO) has considered the application of decision G-2/21 (plausibility) of the Enlarged…
BackgroundSPCs are granted for “products”. Products are defined as active ingredients or combinations of active ingredients (Art. 1(b) SPC Regulation). But what constitutes an active ingredient? The…
If a final decision on an infringement action has already been taken, for a second (consecutive) infringement action with respect to the same patent and between the same parties the question arises…
Although Greek courts have dealt with SPC disputes on a number of occasions, there has been limited judicial analysis of one of the Regulation’s most fundamental concepts: the definition of a …
The Court concurs with the interpretative approach expressed by the EPO Board of Appeal (see Decision T1000/12 of 17 December 2023, T 412/09 of 9 May 2012 et al) according to which it is only in…
On May 18, 2026, a Division Bench comprising Justices C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla of the Delhi High Court pronounced their verdict in K.K. Bansal v Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV,…
While the function of a structural element must be considered when interpreting a claim feature relating to such an element, the interpretation must likewise take into account the physical and…
The UK Supreme Court has considered the fundamental principles of (F)RAND, this time in the context of a jurisdiction challenge in Tesla v InterDigital and Avanci. In what could prove to be a…
