The federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, properly dismissed an inventor’s appeal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decisions rejecting six patent applications on the grounds of lack…
The federal district court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, erred in dismissing copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and state law claims brought by a music contestant against pop recording…
The influential Barcelona Court of Appeal corrected a finding of the Barcelona Patents Court, which – to great surprise – had lifted an injunction on finding that Swiss-type claims were affected by…
The applicant, Teva, sought an order for the revocation of the Irish designation of European Patent No. (IE) 1379220 entitled “Inhalation Capsules” (the “220 Patent”) on the grounds of (i)…
The Federal Court of Justice held that the correct assessment of the involvement of an inventive activity requires that the problem is first identified without knowledge of the invention. This is…
The Supreme Court concluded that it was appropriate for it to reformulate the so-called Improver (or 'Protocol') questions, which provide guidance as to whether a variant is immaterial where there is…
In a case concerning two divisional patents derived from the same parent application, relating to 'transcatheter heart valves' or THVs, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court's decision that one…
In a case concerning two divisional patents derived from the same parent application relating to 'transcatheter heart valves' or THVs, which can be introduced via a blood vessel, rather than through…
The Supreme Court held that where judgment is given in an English court that a patent (English or European) is valid and infringed, and the patent is subsequently retrospectively revoked or amended …
