plausibility

An offer you can refuse?The recent judgment in Teva/Cephalon firmly anchors EU jurisprudence on pay-for-delay agreements. By upholding the sanctions imposed on the two companies for a series of side…

Forget about Gangnam Style, it is overrated. Aya Nakamura Djadja is more than ever the dance-floor song of the moment (especially since her performance at the 2024 Olympics Game opening ceremony). Is…

In case you missed it, here are the main points from the EPO Boards of Appeal Case Law Conference 2024. As ever, this was a really interesting event with lots of high quality presentations. Above all…

The king is dead! Long live the king! An expression traditionally uttered at the death of a monarch to acclaim a new king on the death of his predecessor. Could it be applied to our traditional…

Having examined the UPC texts relating to UPC "saisie-contrefaçon" (see here), it's time to look at the initial case law. Of course, the existence of only two cases is insufficient to draw general…

Following the issuance of G 2/21 last year, we asked whether the plausibility elephant had left the room. Our Kluwer colleague and friend Miquel Montañá discussed this issue more recently here…

My British colleague has already commented brilliantly on the UK ruling in this case from the point of view of plausibility (see here). For my part, I'd like to comment the French ruling in the same…

The concept of plausibility has caused great controversy in European patent law in recent years. It was hoped that the decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the EPO in G 2/21 would bring…

It's an understatement to say that it's not always very easy to be a French patent litigator in a transnational litigation, in any case a good dose of humor is needed: how many jokes have I heard…