An EPO board held that, during opposition proceedings, copies of complaints about file specific issues sent by a party to EPO departments other than the opposition division, as well as the responses…
Earlier this year, the Commercial Courts of Barcelona published a decision which shows that patent owners cannot obtain "Diligencias para la comprobación de hechos" ("Proceedings for the Verification…
A federal district court did not err in finding that a "cow monitoring system" developed by Netherlands-based Agis Automatisering did not infringe the "rumination" and "estrus" patents held by…
A technical teaching making use of a discovery, e.g. of a natural law, for achieving a particular result is patent-eligible, irrespective of whether or not it has an “inventive excess” beyond the…
The asserted claims of a DuPont patent disclosing a process for preparing flexographic printing plates were invalid as obvious over prior art and therefore could not support infringement contentions…
Therapeutic effect of a 2-10mg once yearly dosage regimen is made plausible by an example showing clinical effect of dosage regimens of 0.25, 0.50 and 1mg per three months, 2.0 mg every six months…
The High Court has granted the Claimants’ request for declarations of non-infringement ("DNIs") regarding several national designations of the Defendant’s European Patent for a pemetrexed disodium…
One of the possible methods to examine incentive activity is what is known as the "problem and solution approach" usually applied by the European Patent Office ("EPO"). Spanish Courts like this…
by Claire Phipps-Jones
The Patents Court has recently determined two questions relating to groundless threats: first, can a threat made on the basis of a patent application be justified once the…
