In a challenge to Facebook’s patent application for a method for arranging images contiguously in an array, a prior art reference—a patent application filed by Perrodin that related to placing images…
Barcelona Commercial Court no. 5 handed down a judgment quashing the claimant's DNI action without ruling on the merits of (non-)infringement. The Court found that the claimant had standing to file…
Upon reading the title of this blog entry, readers may be wondering what the "ex re ipsa" doctrine involves. It therefore may be worth clarifying that it is a legal doctrine applied, for example, to…
Nullity Plaintiff still has a need for legal relief even after expiry of the patent as long as Patentee has not given up claims against customers of Plaintiff. A conventional personal computer with…
Following the Court of Appeal's decision that two of Regeneron's patents were valid and infringed, it refused to grant Kymab permission to appeal to the Supreme Court, but held that the injunction…
The Federal Court of Justice held that in utility model registration proceedings, the utility model department must examine whether one of the grounds for refusal listed in Sec. 2 Utility Model Law…
On March 27th, 2018, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued a decision on withdrawal of the seizure order on the grounds that the principle of impartiality had been violated since the patent attorneys…
A Markush claim is a type of claim commonly used in chemical and pharmaceutical fields. On December 20, 2017, in Beijing Winsunny Harmony Science & Technology Co., Ltd. v. Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc.’s motion to remand to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board a consolidated appeal of the Board’s…
The Court of Appeal overturned the Patents Court decision to strike out Glaxo Group’s (GSK’s) claim for an Arrow declaration in proceedings concerning a number of patents relating to dry powder…
