Although at first instance the patent was found to lack inventive step without using the problem-and-solution approach, the use of the PSA by the Court of Appeal did not make a difference to the…
The Court of Appeal dismissed Synthon's appeal against the Patent Court's finding that the patent in suit did involve an inventive step over the prior art, and Teva's appeal against the Court's…
by Hetti Hilge
In its latest FRAND judgment the Düsseldorf appeal court confirmed that in the context of FRAND evaluation the emphasis shall be – in contrast to English practice – on the ND (‘non…
The Court held that the CJEU decision in the Bericarp case, where it was decided that for invalidity procedures no reimbursement of full litigation costs applies, did apply to invalidity proceedings…
A judgment from Henry Carr J refusing an interim injunction to Abbott against Edwards Lifesciences was released to the public on 24 May 2019. The application related to Edwards' PASCAL medical device…
The Court held that the defendant had infringed the claimant's patent for the removal of suspended particles and removal of boron from the polluted waters, through its installation of recycling…
Since the U.S. Supreme Court last year in Oil States rejected a constitutional challenge to the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s authority to invalidate patents in post-grant reviews, patent owners in…
A further interesting decision handed down by the Judges of the English Patents Court prior to the Easter break was a judgment from Nugee J concerning proceedings between E. Mishan and Hozelock…
Ice cream shop franchisor showed that franchisee misappropriated a trade secret and that it would suffer irreparable harm absent a preliminary injunction.
An ice cream parlor franchisor showed that…
