Earlier this year, the Commercial Courts of Barcelona published a decision which shows that patent owners cannot obtain "Diligencias para la comprobación de hechos" ("Proceedings for the Verification…
In a much-anticipated series of judgments, running to some 579 pages, the EU’s General Court on 8 September 2016 upheld a 2013 decision of the European Commission that imposed fines of almost €150…
A post-Brexit UK can stay in the Unitary Patent system, although a number of criteria would have to be met. That is the opinion of leading counsel Richard Gordon QC and Tom Pascoe of Brick Court…
A federal district court did not err in finding that a "cow monitoring system" developed by Netherlands-based Agis Automatisering did not infringe the "rumination" and "estrus" patents held by…
A technical teaching making use of a discovery, e.g. of a natural law, for achieving a particular result is patent-eligible, irrespective of whether or not it has an “inventive excess” beyond the…
Perhaps one of the less high profile consequences of the Brexit vote on 23 June was that the number of people who completed the Kluwer UPC Summer Quiz fell as sharply as the pound. However sincere…
On 9 September 2016, the Full Federal Court of Australia delivered its judgment in Actavis Pty Ltd v Orion Corporation [2016] FCAFC 121 (Actavis). The proceedings concerned the infringement/…
The Italian Chamber of Deputies, the Parliament’s lower house, has approved the draft bill on ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA).
According to a report of the Società Italiana…
The Netherlands has deposited its instrument of ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement with the Council of the EU.
That has just been announced by the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs…
CJEU: reimbursement of legal costs in IP infringement proceedings must not be disproportionate or even insignificant
On 28 July 2016, the CJEU ruled in a case concerning the reimbursement of…
