by Bernward Zollner
It is often worthwhile to read again former judgments of the German Bun-desgerichtshof. In a judgment of 13 July 2010 – docket no. Xa ZR 126/07 – the court has discussed a patent…
Estonia has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement. According to the website of the European Council, it completed the ratification formalities on 1 August 2017.
Estonia joins Austria,…
In paragraph 54 of its judgment of 12 July 2017, the UK Supreme Court wrote that "[…] notwithstanding what Lord Diplock said in Catnic [1982] RPC 183, 242, a problem of infringement is best…
In this case the FCJ considered the question of whether one of the co-owners of an invention is individually entitled to file a patent application for that invention. The Court held that in general…
The UPC IT team has called on business and service providers to provide information about how they want to integrate their systems with the case management system (CMS) of the UPC, and what services…
The recent Apple v. Baili case has generated a wide interest in design patents. This article discusses developments on judicial standards for determining design patent infringement applied in Apple v…
UPDATE with quotes of the press conference of Michel Barnier at the bottom of this blogpost
Will London’s pharmaceuticals and life sciences section of the Unified Patent Court have to be relocated…
By Gregory Bacon
Yes, you read that right. Thirteen years after the House of Lords had firmly shut the door on any notion of a doctrine extending the scope of patent protection outside the claims,…
When this author published his blog of 27 June 2017, a reader kindly sent in a comment pointing out that as this author had not inserted the word "Spanish" before "Supreme Court", and the blog was…
On 30 June 2017, the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court issued a preliminary injunction against MBH-International A/S' and its Danish distributor's, OneMed A/S, import, offer for sale and sale…
