Enforcement

As reported in teh blog on 9 March, 2011, ratiopharm has managed on appeal to the High Court to overturn the first instance decision to grant a PI against ratiopharm which had initiated its own…

Rambus and Micron have been involved in complex patent litigation in Italy since 2000. Things started when, in 2000, Rambus enforced the Italian designation of its patent EP 0525068 on SDRAM memories…

In Germany, prior to the implementation of the “Enforcement Directive” EC/2004/48, measures to secure evidence in patent matters were difficult to realize under the law. With the Implementation Act…

The question in dispute was whether ratiopharm's escitalopram was produced using Lundbeck's patented process The Court considered that a reversal of the burden of proof in favour of the patentee…

While the European Commission is still struggling to implement a Community Patent and a European Patent litigation system, it is worthwhile to have a look to the results the existing system is…

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…

Denmark, as one of only a very few countries in the Western world, has no specialty patents court(s) for first instance PI proceedings. Instead, an application for a PI is heard by the bailiff's…

The court held that the plaintiff who is listed as proprietor of the patent in the patent register is allowed to claim both injunctive relief and damages as well as claims to rendering accounts and…

The Italian Antitrust Authority (Autorità Garante della concorrenza e del mercato) announced on 26 October that it commenced proceedings against Pfizer following a complaint filed by Ratiopharm…