The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal , dismissing a revocation action against the patent in suit, which protected the calcium salt of atorvastatin. The Supreme court held that (i) the Bolar…
The UK Supreme Court overturned the decision of the High Court and the Court of Appeal that HGS's patent directed towards Neutrokine, a new protein and member of the ligand superfamily, lacked…
The Supreme Court held that disputes relating to confidential information contained in an expert's report, filed in the framework of descriptive seizure proceedings, can be heard by the court having…
By Miquel Montañá
In year 2021, Italy will celebrate the 600th anniversary of the patent granted by the Republic of Florence to Filippo Brunelleschi for his ship "Il Badalone", the first patent ever…
The extent of protection conferred by a patent in Poland has its legal basis in the Polish Act on Industrial Property Law of 30 June 2000. According to Article 63 section 2 of the Industrial Property…
by Stephan von Petersdorff-Campen - rospatt osten pross
Where a patent has been exclusively licensed to a third party, it is this licensee who is directly prejudiced by an infringement of said patent…
Just a few years ago, the German IP profession suddenly became very, very nervous. The Regional Court of Düsseldorf had issued its first of a handful of decisions wherein the German part of a…
The German company Hewlett-Packard GmbH (hereinafter referred to as Hewlett-Packard) was granted on 31 March 1993 the European patent EP 0 309 596, entitled “pumping…
Over the last few years, Spanish Courts have struggled to resolve an avalanche of cases where the core of the discussion was the legal effects of TRIPS on the effects of the Reservation made by Spain…
We revisit this case, not this time regarding the question of what constitutes the ‘making’ of an invention as resolved by the Court of Appeal in March 2011, but with regards to the question of costs…
