The Fordham IP Conference in New York is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. As the conference heads into its second quarter-century, the programme and faculty are as impressive as ever.…
On 17 June 2016 the Maritime and Commercial court declared AstraZeneca's patent DK/EP 0 907 364 invalid, rendering the preliminary injunctions granted against Teva and a number of other competitors…
UK prime minister Theresa May’s decision to call early general elections for 8 June 2017 could spell trouble for the Unitary Patent system, as it may delay the UK’s ratification of the Unified Patent…
Given the furore surrounding Birss J’s decision on the non-technical issues in Unwired Planet v Huawei earlier this month, which included the first determination of FRAND terms by an English Court (…
The federal district court in Tyler, Texas, correctly denied Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L.’s ("Core Wireless’s") motion for judgment as a matter of law that Apple infringed a claim of a Core…
by Nicholas Round
At the start of this month, the UK Supreme Court took a break from its recent post-Brexit work interpreting (and developing) constitutional principles to hear an intellectual…
In a significant departure from precedent, the Full Federal Court of Australia held in Coretell Pty Ltd v Australian Mud Company Pty Ltd [2017] FCAFC 54 (Coretell) that the entitlement to relief for…
by Rachael Cartwright
On 5 April 2017, Mr Justice Birss handed down his highly anticipated, lengthy and potentially controversial judgment on the FRAND licensing and competition law aspects of the…
Our indefatigable Kluwer News Blogger has obviously not failed to realize that another draft of the Rules of Procedure has just appeared on the UPC website. To confuse everybody, this draft is still…
by Wouter Pors, Bird & Bird The Hague
On 10 April 2017 the UPC Preparatory Committee published the 'final' version of the 18th draft of the Rules of Procedure, as adopted during the committee…
