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…
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…
