Patents

Gilead Sciences vs Sandoz - Round One The history of the case started in 2018, where Gilead Sciences Inc., brought preliminary injunctions before the court against several companies. On 7 March 2018…

A recent judgment of 18 December 2018 from the Barcelona Court of Appeal has partially reversed a judgment of 9 December 2016 from Barcelona Commercial Court number 4, which had rejected the locus…

The Mobile Word Congress ("MWC") is the largest mobile trade event in the world and one of the most significant trade fairs taking place in Barcelona. More than 105,000 people attended previous…

With the Danish patent litigation community being limited in numbers and the pool of legal judges and expert judges available to the Danish specialty patents court being likewise limited in numbers,…

As already reported by Kluwer Patent Blog, on 5 December 2018 (case T 1063/18) the EPO's Technical Board of Appeal 3304 found that Rule 28 (2) is contrary to article 53 of the European Patent…

by Adam Lacy and Thorsten Bausch As European patent professionals are all too aware, the Boards of Appeal of the EPO (BOA) have a huge amount of power, particularly over the rights of patentees. In…

Looking back at this blog in 2018 from a bird's eye perspective, I cannot resist the feeling that one of the most popular topics has been musing about the UPC's future and speculating about the…

Today, after nine months of waiting, the decision of the UK Supreme Court in the pregabalin litigation was handed down. Like Brexit and the nation, it is clear that the Supreme Court Judges were…

Over the last decade, one of the topics typically discussed in patent proceedings in Spain has been to what extent the validity of the patent may be analysed in preliminary injunction proceedings. In…