The recent Apple v. Baili case has generated a wide interest in design patents. This article discusses developments on judicial standards for determining design patent infringement applied in Apple v…
When this author published his blog of 27 June 2017, a reader kindly sent in a comment pointing out that as this author had not inserted the word "Spanish" before "Supreme Court", and the blog was…
On 30 June 2017, the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court issued a preliminary injunction against MBH-International A/S' and its Danish distributor's, OneMed A/S, import, offer for sale and sale…
The Court of Appeal (Floyd LJ, Kitchin LJ and Longmore LJ) held that there was no issue of principle which prevented the courts from exercising their discretion to grant declarations of the type…
By Gregory Bacon
The UK Supreme Court announced this morning that it has allowed Eli Lilly's appeal and held that Actavis' pemetrexed products directly infringe Lilly's European patent to pemetrexed…
Public prior use when a third party discloses all features of the patent-in-suit before the priority date to the alleged infringer, without concluding a non-disclosure agreement with the alleged…
The Court of Intellectual Property has exclusive jurisdiction to revoke patents. The mandatory arbitration court established by Law 62/2011 cannot declare the nullity of a pharmaceutical patent even…
In relation to a patent that protected the interaction of a key and a cylinder in order to constitute a security locking system, the Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15) handed down a Judgment on…
Decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in three interference proceedings between Stanford University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong ("CUHK")—in which the Board found that methods of…
