Section 70 of the UK’s 1977 Patents Act “the Act” (as shown below) creates a cause of action against a party that issues groundless threats of patent infringement:
(1) Where a person (whether or not…
Earlier this year the Federal Patent Court published its annual report for the business year 2012. The report provides an overview of the businesses and procedures during the new Swiss Patent Court’s…
As the readers will know, one of the possible methods used by the European Patent Office ("EPO") to examine inventive step is the so-called "problem & solution" approach, which has three parts: i…
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Assuming that “it is sensible for national courts at least to learn from each other and to seek to move towards, rather than away from, each other’s…
The first set of "technical corrections" to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted on January 14, 2013. While this legislation did make "technical" corrections to some of the new AIA…
The final week in July is always a busy time in the English Courts as Judges try to hand down judgments before the commencement of the summer vacation which lasts approximately two months.
2013 was…
The Mannheim Regional Court decided on March 8, 2013 (court docket: 7 O 139/12) that a supplier which is located abroad is regularly only liable for participating in patent-infringing acts in Germany…
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This piece follows from two previous postings to this blog by Robert Lundie Smith on the Nokia/HTC/IPCom FRAND litigation before the High Court of England and Wales (here…
In my earlier posts (here and here) I reported and commented on the first two phases of the Italian Pfizer antitrust case, in which the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) accused Pfizer of having…
It could be argued that 2013 is proving to be somewhat unkind to UK patentees when it comes to the issues of sufficiency and priority. On 25 June 2013, in a typically comprehensive judgment running…
