Injunction

On 1 September 2025, Michael Tappin KC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court handed down a judgment in favour of Bayer’s application to strike out Sandoz’s claim for an account of profits under…

Traditionally, patents are territorial rights: their effects are limited to the territory in which they take effect, and therefore any infringing acts are necessarily localised in that territory…

It has been a little over two years since the UPC issued its first order for provisional measures on 22 June 2023. The first year saw six preliminary injunctions (PIs) granted (two ex parte) out of…

In a recent decision by the Mannheim Local Division, the UPC granted the first-ever UPC injunction relating to the UK. This is a landmark decision following a number of preliminary judgments that…

Maybe not all readers of this blog will know that there once was a “North German Confederation” which existed from July 1867 to December 1870, after which it became part of the newly to-be-founded…

In the UK, as well as in many other countries, being the first to market with a generic or biosimilar to a leading branded medicine is a critical strategy that can offer a major advantage to a…

As is well known in the life sciences community in Europe, both the Commission and the Parliament have proposed reforms to the Medicines Directive which, if implemented, would serve to broaden the…

Biogen has had mixed success in Europe in enforcing its patent on a second medical use of dimethylfumarate for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. In the present Dutch case, an attempt to obtain an…

On 30 October 2024, the District Court of the Hague handed down two merits decisions on the widely litigated apixaban patent of Bristol-Myers Squibb (see here and here - Dutch language versions). EP…