Case Law

The Federal Court of Justice held that: The sequence of steps in a method claim is normally determined by the claim’s wording. A completely new attack based on a document only filed upon appeal is…

The choice of the starting point for evaluation of inventive step requires a justification which is not in itself provided by the fact that a certain citation proves ex post to be the "closest state…

The federal district court in Tampa did not err in deciding on summary judgment that fishing boat manufacturer Yellowfin Yachts failed to establish that a former executive and his company were liable…

In a challenge to Facebook’s patent application for a method for arranging images contiguously in an array, a prior art reference—a patent application filed by Perrodin that related to placing images…

Barcelona Commercial Court no. 5 handed down a judgment quashing the claimant's DNI action without ruling on the merits of (non-)infringement. The Court found that the claimant had standing to file…

Upon reading the title of this blog entry, readers may be wondering what the "ex re ipsa" doctrine involves. It therefore may be worth clarifying that it is a legal doctrine applied, for example, to…

Nullity Plaintiff still has a need for legal relief even after expiry of the patent as long as Patentee has not given up claims against customers of Plaintiff. A conventional personal computer with…

Following the Court of Appeal's decision that two of Regeneron's patents were valid and infringed, it refused to grant Kymab permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, but held that the injunction…

The Federal Court of Justice held that in utility model registration proceedings, the utility model department must examine whether one of the grounds for refusal listed in Sec. 2 Utility Model Law…