In a sophisticated dispute concerning methods for predicting breast cancer recurrence, the Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15) rejects infringement. In doing so, it holds a narrow view on method…
In episode 7 of season 4 of “Silicon Valley”, very aptly named “The Patent Troll”, the start-up Pied Piper, which is built on a bold and disruptive vision, suddenly finds itself under threat. A man…
Following previous explorations of the UPC's architecture (Legal Inception), the interpretive tensions inherited from national traditions (Legal Westworld), and the volatility of procedural standards…
In 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a now-famous thought experiment: a cat, sealed inside a box with a quantum trigger, remains both alive and dead until an observer opens the box to…
As most IP practitioners will be aware, on 25 February 2025 the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its ruling in BSH v Electrolux (C-339/22). In summary, the CJEU concluded that it is…
Looking at the pharmaceutical law reform package prepared by the European Commission it is clear that, quite sadly, incentivizing inventions and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry no longer…
A New Kind of Justice?In the often adversarial landscape of European patent litigation, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has introduced a lesser-known, but potentially transformative institution: the…
In 1976, Tom Scholz—a MIT-trained engineer and sonic perfectionist—spent months layering guitar tracks in the basement of his Boston apartment to produce More Than a Feeling, a song whose depth came…
The use of divisional patent applications in order to ensure flexibility and to keep a patentee’s options open as to the protection it seeks to obtain is established practice in many patent offices…
This article follows the jurisdictional analysis initiated in Legal Inception: Harmonizing the UPC and National Courts through EU Law. That piece focused on procedural structure. This one turns…
