H. Lundbeck A/S (hereinafter referred to as Lundbeck) is the holder of European patent EP 0 347 066 entitled “new enantiomers and their isolation”, which designates France and was filed on 1 June…
For many years it has been heavily disputed in Danish and Nordic legal theory, whether the doctrine of equivalents should or should not be accorded weight in the construction of the protective scope…
Merck & Co. is a company governed by the laws of the United States of America and the owner of European patent EP 0 724 444, filed on 11 October 1994, which relates to a “method of treating…
An interesting case decided by Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.5 in May 2009 strives to put an end to the (occasional) practice of some applicants and/or their European representatives of trying to…
The District Court of The Hague passed judgment today in a case between Sandoz and Glaxo regarding a combination patent held by Glaxo. The judgment comprises an extensive “lecture” on the assessment…
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…
Institut Pasteur is the holder of European patent No. 0 178 978, which relates to “Cloned DNA sequences, hybridizable with genomic RNA of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV)”. Institut Pasteur…
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…
