On September 30th, 2021, the Danish High Court (Eastern Division) rendered its decision in a long running patent infringement case. One important element of the case was the question of acquiescence,…
The Enlarged Board of Appeal has now issued its long-awaited full decision in case G 1/21. Readers can access it here. The decision deserves a few comments.
The Enlarged Board's advance publication…
A judgment of 7 July 2021 from the Spanish Supreme Court has been published, which, as discussed below, following the case law from the EPO's Boards of Appeal, introduces certain guidelines for…
This short post reports on one of the Panel Sessions at this year’s AIPPI Congress which took place virtually for the second year in a row.
The tenth panel session of the AIPPI Online World Congress…
In a recent decision, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court – Switzerland's highest court also in patent matters – dealt with the question of whether the assessment of patent claims is fundamentally a…
Can an artificial intelligence (“AI”) machine be an inventor and can the machine’s owner apply for a patent? These were two of the key questions which the Court of Appeal grappled with in Thaler v…
In our blog of 27 August 2021, we explained that the Barcelona Appeal Court (Section 15), in a very interesting Ruling of 16 October 2020, decided that the claims as amended before the EPO Boards of…
In the pharma industry, constant battles have been taking place for many decades between innovators and generics. More recently, battles among innovators have also started to occur. This post…
My eminent colleague Pierre Véron, who needs no introduction here, is the author of a recent survey on the ranking of European jurisdictions in terms of damages awarded over the period 2000-2019 ,…
