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Concerto Italiano - Preludio Johannes Karcher, acting chairman of the UPC's Administrative Committee, is to be applauded for the interview he gave to the Kluwer Patent blogger recently, which sheds…

The judgment of 17 October 2022 recently handed down by the Patents Section of Barcelona Commercial Court of First Instance no. 4 is most interesting, for a variety of reasons. First, because the…

Article 124, III of the so-called "PACTE" Law enshrines the disappearance of the statute of limitations for revocation actions concerning industrial property titles. It was intended to put an end to…

In an appeal of a PI decision, the Danish Eastern High Court has ruled to uphold the dismissal of Novartis’ application for a preliminary injunction against Glenmark, Zentiva, and Viatris, based on…

October 19, 2022 was a special day. It was the first day when the UPC website finally announced the names of the UPC's first 85 judges. JuVe's journalists quickly did their homework and provided…

Geofabrics Limited v Fiberweb Geosynthetics Limited [2022] EWHC 2363 (Pat) Geofabrics Limited (“Geofabrics”) has been awarded £13.4 million in damages for patent infringement, concluding a 5 year…

The so-called proportionality defense according to Sec. 139(1) clause 3 (hereinafter simply "proportionality defense") is one of the newest provisions of the German Patent Act. It has only been…

On 17 February 2022, the Administrative Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court handed down a very interesting judgment setting out legal doctrine on the legal value of expert opinions from the…

On 24 August 2022, Nicholas Caddick QC (sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court) handed down his decision in Vernacare Limited v Moulded Fibre Products…