In Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH v Scott [2010] EWCA Civ 1110 the English Court of Appeal stated clearly its support for judicial collaboration facilitating de facto harmonisation of patent law in…
One of the strategies used by manufacturers of generic drugs to try to capture the market of the "reference product" when the patent protecting the latter expires is to present the generic as a cheap…
The question at issue was whether a verbal preparatory agreement between the parties on a patented invention had given rise to a valid license agreement and ensuing entitlement to damages.
The…
The court held that the plaintiff who is listed as proprietor of the patent in the patent register is allowed to claim both injunctive relief and damages as well as claims to rendering accounts and…
The Appellant had obtained both utility model and patent protection for a mechanical invention. The Defendant argued that the subject matter of both rights did not fulfil the novelty requirement,…
Atanas filed a patent application for a 'Gravity Power System'. The Bulgarian Patent Office (BPO) dismissed the application because the claimed invention was not industrially applicable and therefore…
The Italian Antitrust Authority (Autorità Garante della concorrenza e del mercato) announced on 26 October that it commenced proceedings against Pfizer following a complaint filed by Ratiopharm…
After a procedure of twenty-odd years, various companies and a natural person were held liable for the infringement of French Patent No. 2 590 192 and European Patent No. …
In Denmark, as is probably the case in many other jurisdictions, in IP proceedings a case must be brought against each alleged infringer in that alleged infringer's local jurisdiction (bailiff's…
Like other countries, such as Australia or Germany, a "petty" patent or "utility model" can be obtained in Spain for so-called minor inventions. They present a twofold distinction with regard to "…
