Nokia has started legal actions against Amazon in the US, Germany, India, the UK and at the Unified Patent Court for the unauthorized use of Nokia’s video-related technologies in streaming services…
On the last day of the AIPPI World Congress in Istanbul, a packed-out room of attendees was treated to a UPC mock trial. The illustrious judging panel featured three UPC judges, with Edger Brinkman…
The president of the UPC local division The Hague has allowed to change the language of the proceedings from Dutch to English in an infringement action of Plant-e Knowledge and Plant-e against Arkyne…
A recently published ruling of the Presidium of the Court for Intellectual Rights may turn the issue of cascading divisional applications upside down and endanger many patents granted on such…
The Unitary Patent system is doing much better than expected, with almost 80 cases in the first six months and about 20-25% of new European patents converted to UPs, according to Paul England. He is…
The EPO and BRPTO are adopting the WIPO Standard ST.26 for the submission of sequence listings in national and international applications filed on or after July 1st, 2022. WIPO Standard ST.26…
An earlier post on case law on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in India looked at decisions published until 2021. This very comment updates the analysis by covering more recent cases occurred in…
A recent letter by the EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) about Rewarding quality in the core business is too important and far too well-written to remain unnoticed.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it…
The Status Quo injunction is not a variation on Wayne’s World classic “No Stairway, Denied” joke. While some may yearn for a ban on their generic tunes, Status Quo is still not denied. That is not…
The requirement for immediate and complete substantiation of a request for re-establishment corresponds to the principle of "Eventualmaxime/ Häufungsgrundsatz/ le principe de la concentration des…
