I have already written about the investigation launched last October by the Italian antitrust authority (AGCM) on an alleged abuse of a dominant position by Pfizer in relation to the manner in which…
The Appeal Court Karlsruhe has recently issued a judgement in a preliminary injunction proceeding. Plaintiff has sought to obtain a confirmation of the first instance's judgement. Defendant had filed…
The case concerned the question of whether the sale of an incomplete kit of parts to a customer outside of the UK could constitute infringement of a patent for the assembled device for the purposes…
Aventis Pharma is the holder of supplementary protection certificate (SPC) No. 960006 related to European patent EP 253 738 granted on 31 January 1990, concerning the…
The new edition of the bestseller The Annotated European Patent Convention (Derk Visser, 2010) will be published on paper on 15 December 2010, but is already available for subscribers on www.…
This judgement is one of many issued in the worldwide litigation pending between Novartis and Johnson & Johnson concerning Novartis' patent for ophthalmically compatible extended wear contact…
In a recent post of mine I have reported that by decision of 29 July 2010, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (Consiglio di Stato) had tackled the issue of whether the Italian drugs regulatory…
Once again, the German Federal Supreme Court has underlined the primacy of the patent claim over the patent's description. The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to be established by…
The UK has long been considered a favourable jurisdiction for pharmaceutical patent holders to seek an interim or preliminary injunction. In particular, from 2001 the English Courts have imposed an…
The Court of Appeal allowed Grimme's appeal, holding that Grimme's patent for an agricultural machine for harvesting and separating potatoes (from other materials such as earth, clods, stones, weeds…
