The Board, exercising its power under Article 12(4) RPBA, decided not to admit the patent proprietor's (appellant) main request in appeal, because he did not at all respond in substance to the…
The Board refused to admit the only set of claims, with an added limitation, filed in the patentee's grounds of appeal. In the Board's view, the applicant should have submitted the amended claims…
Since Rule 140 EPC is not available to correct the
text of a patent, a patent proprietor's request for such a correction is inadmissible whenever made, including after the initiation of opposition…
The Court of Justice ruled that claims against different companies located in different Member States marketing the same product regarding infringement of a a European patent in one jurisdiction were…
The Polish Supreme Administrative Court invalidated a decision of the Polish Patent Office in which it refused to grant a patent for an invention related to digital electronics. The court held that…
The Supreme Administrative Court stated that the patentability requirements used by the Polish Patent Office should be construed in compliance with the patentability requirements provided in the…
The District Court of Turin rejected Merck's requests for a preliminary injunction, finding lack of inventive step of the claimed co-formulation of dorzolamid and timolol based on a prima facie…
The Supreme Court held that the patent claiming a device to be mounted on ovens used to industrially drain pasta was infringed by application of the doctrine of equivalence.
A summary of this case…
The Supreme Court revoked claims 1 to 4, and found claim 5 to be novel and inventive but not infringed, because the result of defendant's machine was not obtained by the claimed means. The court…
