Prior use right

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The Supreme Court held that Article 68 (3) IP Code relating to prior use, sets forth both a "quantitative" and a "qualitative" limit, in the sense that it "serves to identify the business behavior…

By decision of 5 April 2012, no. 5497, the Italian Supreme Court resolved an interesting case concerning the application of Article 68 (3) Italian IP Code, according to which “Whoever, in the course…

Imagine: Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have one single patent which you could apply for at the WPO, the World Patent Office? A World Patent, which would be valid worldwide and which could be enforced…

In these infringement proceedings initiated by Agfa against Xingraphics the Court held Agfa's patent valid and dismissed Xingraphics cross border declaration of non-infringement due to lack of…