In this case the Court confirmed that an invention can be patentable only if it affects matter by its industrial application. A patentable invention must involve a material creation of a new…
In this case the Court held that a previous patent application and other scientific publications which did not disclose the invention in a manner sufficiently complete for it to be carried out by a…
In this decision the EBoA held that sexually crossing of plants is an 'essential biological process' within the meaning of Art. 53(b) EPC. Any claim that contains a step of sexually crossing…
On 30 June 2010, the Supreme Court held that the 'Bolar provision' introduced by Law 29/2006, which implemented Directive 2004/27 into Spanish law, may not be applied retrospectively. In addition,…
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University filed a patent application for a system and process for monitoring railway tracks by means of optical fibres. The applicant argued that, whereas document D1…
SK Telecom filed a patent application for a system and method for financial transactions, wherein a user was allowed to load money in his account on a host computer. The examining division refused to…
In summary proceedings filed by Novartis, the Brussels Court of Appeal issued a preliminary injunction, enjoining Mylan from infringing Novartis' patent for 'pharmaceutical compositions for sustained…
This judgement is one of many issued in the worldwide litigation pending between Novartis and Johnson & Johnson concerning Novartis' patent for ophthalmically compatible extended wear contact lenses…
The Court of Appeal allowed Grimme's appeal, holding that Grimme's patent for an agricultural machine for harvesting and separating potatoes (from other materials such as earth, clods, stones, weeds…
