The Brussels Court of Appeal issued a preliminary injunction against Eurogenerics on the basis of Lundbeck's Belgian SPC for escitalopram, despite the fact that the SPC had been invalidated in…
On 27 September 2012, a new consolidated version of the Draft Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Document 14268/12) was (finally) published. The consolidated text includes some of the amendments…
In the wake of the UPC Agreement having been entered into under the Danish presidency, there was widespread euphoria about the many, potentially positive, aspects of Danish SME litigants being able…
After widespread reform in late 2010 (previously reported here), the Patents County Court (the "PCC") is increasingly becoming a court of choice in intellectual property matters in England and Wales…
The UK IPO has applied the decision of the CJEU in Brüstle on stem cells in a recent case that is likely to lead to more judicial comment on the patentability of stem cell inventions. In…
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…
