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…
One of the remedies established in case of patent infringement in the Spanish Patents Act that was in force until 31 March 2017 was "the publication of the judgment finding against the infringer of…
Preparations for the launch of the Unitary Patent system are progressing, despite the uncertainties and delays in the ratification process in Germany and the UK. The Case Management System (CMS) of…
The Court of Appeal (Floyd LJ, Kitchin LJ and Longmore LJ) held that there was no issue of principle which prevented the courts from exercising their discretion to grant declarations of the type…
By Gregory Bacon
The UK Supreme Court announced this morning that it has allowed Eli Lilly's appeal and held that Actavis' pemetrexed products directly infringe Lilly's European patent to pemetrexed…
Public prior use when a third party discloses all features of the patent-in-suit before the priority date to the alleged infringer, without concluding a non-disclosure agreement with the alleged…
