Case Law

The UK Supreme Court overturned the decision of the High Court and the Court of Appeal that HGS's patent directed towards Neutrokine, a new protein and member of the ligand superfamily, lacked…

The Supreme Court held that disputes relating to confidential information contained in an expert's report, filed in the framework of descriptive seizure proceedings, can be heard by the court having…

The Court of Appeal dismissed Krka's appeal against a decision of the Oslo Court of Enforcement and Execution, which granted AstraZeneca a preliminary injunction preventing Krka from marketing its…

If incorrect pre-litigation behavior of only one of the parties (in this case evasive and conflicting answers to warning letters of a patentee) leads to unnecessary litigation, the court costs and…

The Supreme Administrative Court –overruled  the Patent Office (PO) denying AstraZeneca’s application for a supplementary protection certificate (SPC), because the PO should have applied § 77(2) –…

Patentability of an invention is not excluded by the mere fact that the only feature of the patent claim not comprised in the state of the art is a dosage regime. Click here  for the full text of…

The Swedish Supreme Court held that in cases where the infringing act is the sale of infringing goods, the damage (in this case the right to reasonable compensation for use of the invention and…

The Court of Justice of the European Union in clarifying the phrase 'civil and commercial matters' in Article 1 of the Brussels I Regulation (No 44/2001) ruled that said Regulation is also applicable…

The case determined whether Abena A/S (hereinafter "Abena") waste bags with lace up sealing, which had a seam with curved corners in one side of the bag, infringed Etradan BS ApS´ (hereinafter …