Different views from the EPO and Germany on the same case
1. Introduction
Functional features in patent claims may provide protection not only for specific embodiments disclosed in the patent…
My last blog, published on 14 November 2013, mentioned that on the closing date (15 November 2013) set to send expressions of interest for persons wishing to be considered candidate Judges at the…
In IPCom GmbH & Co KG v HTC Europe Co Limited and others [2013] EWCA Civ 1496, the English Court of Appeal has very recently given guidance concerning the circumstances in which it is appropriate…
by Stefan Lieck
Based on the act for simplification and modernization of Patent Law ("Patentrechts-modernisierungsgesetz") patent nullity proceedings in Germany have been reformed fundamentally in…
According to a recent decision of the Administrative Council, from November 2014 it will be possible, by paying appropriate further search fees, to obtain searches of any claimed invention when…
In Denmark, as in many other European countries, Escitalopram patent cases that have been conducted in recent years.
One of these cases in which an interlocutory injunction was granted by the bailiff…
Tomorrow is the deadline for persons with the qualifications required for appointment to judicial office in a state which is a contracting party to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court ("UPC") to…
The Board vacated reversed a decision that deletion of drawings amounted to an extension of protection. The opposition Opposition division Division had revoked the patent with the argument that the…
In a decision handed down on October 23, 2013, the Polish Supreme Court confirmed that the Bolar exemption does not cover activities by third-party manufacturers, i.e. supplying active ingredients…
by Stephan von Petersdorff-Campen
Under section 7 (1) of the Law on Employee Inventions (ArbErfG), all the rights in an invention made by an employee in the context of his employment relationship…
