On September 16, 2012, inter partes review proceedings became available against U.S. patents and post-grant review proceedings became available against certain U.S. business method patents. In two…
by Bernward Zollner
The German law on indirect patent infringement is rather strict. Particular means which are being supplied to third parties relate to an essential element of the in-vention if…
The Court decided it has jurisdiction in preliminary proceedings in respect of the alleged unlawful act by a Dutch company, consisting of facilitating - as the holder of a marketing authorization -…
The French Supreme Court specified the rules for the application of the doctrine of equivalence in the assessment of infringement of a process patent, holding that a patented process is considered to…
The Board, exercising its power under Article 12(4) RPBA, decided not to admit the patent proprietor's (appellant) main request in appeal, because he did not at all respond in substance to the…
Until recently, cases involving "Supplementary Protection Certificates" (so-called "SPCs") were relatively rare in Spain. This is due to the fact that, as a consequence of the transitional provisions…
August and September are traditionally vacation months in the English Courts although the Patents Court can and often does sit in September. As a result of this, not many judgments are handed down in…
by Miriam Büttner
As promised by my colleague, Rüdiger Pansch (please see his post on "Munich Appellate Court on Making vs. Repair" dated 28 October 2011 and the other earlier Blogs cited therein) we…
On 3 July 2012, the European Parliament adopted the Commission’s proposal for a new Regulation on “Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property” (COM(2011)0285) at first reading. The document P7_TA(…
The Board refused to admit the only set of claims, with an added limitation, filed in the patentee's grounds of appeal. In the Board's view, the applicant should have submitted the amended claims…
