The right to an unpatented invention does not entitle to its exclusive use; it ceases to exist if the invention is made public without patent protection. The right to an unpatented invention…
The Swiss company Bobst (hereinafter referred to as “Bobst”) is the holder of European patent No. 1 170 228 relating to a “device for controlling the means for feeding sheets in a machine”.
After…
The Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) in Germany has held in its recent “Dentalgerätesatz” decision FCJ.5.4.2011that claim 1 of EP 892 625 is novel since it claimed a new functional adaptation of…
The decision of the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office which revokes a European patent due to lack of inventive step, is a supra-national legal instrument which can be the object of a…
The Court of Appeal overturned a decision of the High Court and held that the act of replacing Shutz's bottles in Shutz's outer protective cages with Werit's bottles constituted ’ making’ products…
The Court held that in order to decide that a patented invention is novel, it is not sufficient that the wording in the patent description is different from the wording in the prior art. The…
In this case the patentee (Meyn) was granted a patent (EP 0 530 868) on a device to clean out the intestines of poultry during slaughtering. The enforcement court in Denmark granted an injunction…
1. The Enlarged Board of Appeal considered the meaning that is to be given to the exclusion of patents on methods for ‘treatment by surgery’ (Article 53(c) EPC). The current construction used by the…
The District Court of The Hague held that Abbott does not infringe Medinol's patent. According to the Court there is also no reason to accept infringement by equivalence, since the meander patterns…
