The Oslo District Court held that the expired Norwegian patent 306452 ("452 Patent") was invalid due to lack of inventive step, which implied that its supplementary protection certificate SPC014 was…
Ukraine has always been the subject of interest of innovators and generic manufacturers trying to maximize profits from selling their medicines, and ordinary consumers who just want to recover from…
Please click here to find US patent cases from the the U.S. Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals with a detailed summary of each case…
The possibility to bifurcate proceedings is a concern to many potential users of the future Unified Patent Court (UPC). Proceedings in Germany, in which infringement decisions may be rendered…
The new long arm jurisdiction provision in the Brussels I Regulation (recast) is one of the most remarkable elements of the Unitary Patent (UP) package, according to French lawyer and IP…
The German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) has just issued its written decision in the case "Repaglinid" (X ZR 128/09). As far as can be seen, the decision is not yet available on the FCJ’s website…
We are delighted to announce that on 12 February 2015 Kluwer Law International is hosting a free webinar by Pierre Véron on the Unified Patent Court.
Wolters Kluwer present this webinar by Pierre…
This question has been on the minds of many European IP litigation stakeholders since January 26, 2015. On that date, the Court of Appeal of Antwerp in United Video Properties v. Telenet referred…
Rather ironically, Directive 2004/48/EC (the "Enforcement Directive"), which was meant to enhance the protection of intellectual property rights throughout the European Union ("EU"), had just the…
by Dr. Simon Klopschinski
Under EPO case law there is the “inescapable trap” of Article 123 (2) and (3) EPC. The German Federal Court of Justice decided in the “Winkelmesseinrichtung” case that the “…
