The European Commission has adopted new competition rules for the assessment of technology-transfer agreements. The revised Block Exemption Regulation for Technology-Transfer Agreements (EU) 316/2014…
By ruling of 21 February 2014, the Court of Turin decided a case between the US corporation Rovi and a number of Italian consumers electronics manufacturers. These had produced / imported set-top-…
The Bolar exemption must be interpreted narrowly in order not to affect the patent holder's exclusive rights. The privilege of the generic drug manufacturers who are allowed to conduct clinical…
The Oslo District Court held that Jets AS' patent for a liquid seal pump of the helical screw type for use in vacuum drainage systems lacked novelty over one of Jets' own patents. Despite the court’s…
Commercial Court number 5 of Barcelona recently handed down a judgment dated 28 March 2014 ordering a defendant to cease manufacturing and marketing coffee capsules that are compatible with Nespresso…
Preliminary injunctions are powerful weapons in patent infringement suits. A successful application – and sometimes even an unsuccessful application – for a preliminary injunction (“PI”) will often…
At the Kluwer Patent Blog we keep our fingers on the pulse of patent litigation. With their trained fingertips our contributors measure the heart rate of new case law and developments from their…
In its recent decision “Communication Channel” (“Kommunikationskanal”) of 11 February 2014, docket, X ZR 107/12, the FCJ decided that the priority of an earlier application may be claimed if the…
The messy case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") on supplementary protection certificates ("SPC") that protect "combinations" of pharmaceutical products has left many…
Under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich) 40 researchers from 25 countries passed a “Declaration on Patent Protection”. This declaration was published in…
