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…
Since Rule 140 EPC is not available to correct the
text of a patent, a patent proprietor's request for such a correction is inadmissible whenever made, including after the initiation of opposition…
In a recent decision, the Danish specialty court for inter alia patents, the Maritime and Commercial Court, demonstrated its ability to render an in-depth analysis and reasoned decision in a patent…
In a decision dated 14 June 2012, the Swiss Federal Patent Court granted a patent holder's request for preliminary taking of evidence by means of the creation of a precise description of an allegedly…
The next wave of U.S. patent reform changes embodied in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act takes effect on September 16, 2012. The following is a list of some key changes that may impact granted,…
The Regional Court in Dusseldorf and the Higher Regional Court in Gdansk have ruled in June and July 2012 that the Bolar exemption and the experimental-use exemption only apply to the testing entity…
On 8 June 2012, the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris rendered an interesting decision concerning Losartan. It particularly deals with two questions: the conditions of the SPC’s…
The pan-European litigation between Danish companies Danisco A/S (today a part of DuPont) and Novozymes A/S has been extensively reported in posts on this blog (12/08/2011; 21/09/2011; 10/01/2012; 09…
By ruling of 10 July 2012, the Court of Turin decided in the first instance an infringement action filed by Italian company Novamont against German and French companies Biotec and Biosphère, for the…
On 30 July 2012, Commercial Court number 5 of Barcelona handed down an interesting decision that has brought again to the fore the legality of so-called "preparatory acts" (in particular, obtaining…
