On 10 June 2013 the Court of Appeal of Barcelona handed down a very interesting decision that appears to have written the penultimate word in the long saga of decisions discussing the meaning of "…
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Swarovski-Optik KG v Leica Camera AG [2013] EWHC 1227
Summary
At the Patents Court before Vos J, Swarovski-Optik brought patent infringement proceedings against Leica Camera, who…
Now is the winter of our discontent, or so some may have thought when the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) agreement was signed on 19 February of this year. The rain came mainly from Spain, which started…
The main principles applicable for assessing whether a non-disclosed disclaimer meets the requirements of Article 123(2) EPC have been laid out in the decision G 1/03 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal…
On June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in the “ACLU/Myriad” gene patents case (Association For Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.). In a unanimous opinion…
Over the past months several webites have been launched that try to track and trace any and all news and documents on the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court ("UPC"). Today the faithful UPC…
Jurisdiction at the place where the harmful event occurred or may occur pursuant to Article 5 (3) of Regulation EC/44/2001 can be established in a negative declaratory action even though this action…
There is insufficiency of disclosure if the skilled person must deliberately ignore a feature of the claim which is perfectly understandable per se in order to work the invention.
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The Stockholm District Court held the Swedish part of a European patent concerning a method of growing two or more plants invalid, due to lack of inventive step. Despite requests for limitations by…
In a combined patent infringement and nullity case, the Svea Court of Appeal upheld the validity of Roche Diagnostics' European patent as far as Sweden was concerned, but held, other than the…
