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Facts and Figures about Swiss Patent Litigation: The Annual Report of the Swiss Federal Patent Court 12 Aug 2013 | 11:31 am
Meyerlustenberger Lachenal Earlier this year the Federal Patent Court published its annual report for the business year 2012. The report provides an overview of the businesses and procedures during t...
Is the “problem & solution approach” here to stay? 8 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Clifford Chance As the readers will know, one of the possible methods used by the European Patent Office (“EPO”) to examine inventive step is the so-called “problem & solution” approach, which has th...
Dialectics between English and German Courts on making vs repair 6 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
Rospatt Osten Pross by Rüdiger Pansch for rospatt osten pross Assuming that “it is sensible for national courts at least to learn from each other and to seek to move towards, rather than away from, ...
Technical Amendments To The America Invents Act Could Mean More Patent Term For U.S. National Phase Applications 5 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Foley&Lardner LLP The first set of “technical corrections” to the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted on January 14, 2013. While this legislation did make “technical” corrections to som...
Result for Resolution – Resolution Chemicals Limited v H. Lundbeck A/S – 29 July [2013] CA 2 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Bristows The final week in July is always a busy time in the English Courts as Judges try to hand down judgments before the commencement of the summer vacation which lasts approximately two months. ...
Mannheim Regional Court on the Liability of a Foreign Supplier under German Patent Law 1 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
Hoffmann Eitle The Mannheim Regional Court decided on March 8, 2013 (court docket: 7 O 139/12) that a supplier which is located abroad is regularly only liable for participating in patent-infringing ...
UK FRAND Update 30 Jul 2013 | 08:44 pm
EIP And Carissa Kendall-Palmer This piece follows from two previous postings to this blog by Robert Lundie Smith on the Nokia/HTC/IPCom FRAND litigation before the High Court of England and Wales (h...
Recent news in the Italian Pfizer antitrust case 22 Jul 2013 | 03:10 pm
Trevisan & Cuonzo In my earlier posts (here and here) I reported and commented on the first two phases of the Italian Pfizer antitrust case, in which the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) accused Pfi...
Biotech patent fails for insufficiency – Eli Lilly and Company v Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy – 25 June [2013] EWHC 1737 19 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
Bristows It could be argued that 2013 is proving to be somewhat unkind to UK patentees when it comes to the issues of sufficiency and priority. On 25 June 2013, in a typically comprehensive judgment ...
European Patent Office revoked European patent on neural precursor cells 19 Jul 2013 | 03:25 pm
Rospatt Osten Pross by Miriam Büttner On 21 January 2013 we already reported on the decision of the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) regarding the validity of German patent no. 197 56 864, the so-...
