As explained in our entry UPC: four reasons why the PPA is not legally in force, published on April 21, 2022, one of the collateral damages of Brexit is that the conditions for the entry into force…
As readers are well aware, Directive 2004/48 EC (known as the "Enforcement Directive"), stemming from Part III of the TRIPS Agreement, was meant to introduce a minimum level of intellectual property…
The Spanish Supreme Court rules in a patent ownership and trade secret dispute where a company had filed a patent application which named as inventor the husband of the company's founder, who had…
To date, final decisions from the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office ("SPTO") dealing with matters such as patents or supplementary protection certificates ("SPC") may be appealed before the…
As readers will be well aware, one of the points on which the courts of various European countries diverge, is whether or not the prosecution history of the patent at hand may be taken into account…
Barcelona Commercial Court no. 5 - arguably Spain's most active patent court - rules in an infringement case concerning motorcycle helmets. The features of a claim cannot be narrowed down based on a…
In a complex case concerning blockbuster cinacalcet, Section 15 of the Barcelona Court of Appeals makes findings on the non-obviousness of inventions consisting of the provision of an unexpected…
Although the title of this blog may sound trite to most readers, it may still be of interest to briefly discuss a recent case where this topic was discussed before the Spanish courts in the context…
On 27 January 2022, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down a very interesting judgment dealing with a dispute surrounding the ownership of a patent application that claims a system to produce domestic…
After the disruption brought on by the pandemic, it seems that this year the Mobile Word Congress ("MWC"), the largest mobile trade event in the world and one of the most significant trade fairs held…
