Posted: January 24th, 2020
The 20th edition of National law relating to the EPC is now online. “With its “National law relating to the EPC” booklet, the EPO aims to provide European patent applicants and proprietors, and all others concerned with the European patent system, with a concise guide to the most important provisions and requirements of the relevant […]
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Posted: January 21st, 2020
Slides of presentations held at the EPLAW Congress of 29 November 2019, are now online. They can be found here.
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Posted: January 21st, 2020
Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. v Apple Retail UK Limited & Ors [2019] EWHC 3266 (Pat) The Patents Court has handed down a decision revoking Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L. (“Conversant”)’s United Kingdom patent GB 2 365 712 entitled “Computing device with improved user interface for applications” (the “Patent”) on the basis that it was obvious. The […]
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Posted: January 17th, 2020
EPO, Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.08, case T 844/18 In January 2018, the Opposition Division revoked European patent 2 77 461 relating to an important aspect of the CRISPR Cas technology on the grounds of lack of novelty, denying claimed priorities from US provisional applications because not all of the applicants of the first applications […]
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Posted: January 15th, 2020
Technetix B.V. & Ors v. Teleste Limited, High Court, London, UK, 18 November 2019, Neutral Citation Number: [2019] EWHC 3106 (Pat) This case was brought by the patentee, Technetix B.V and two licensees (the “Claimants”) against Teleste Limited (the “Defendant”) a company which manufactures electronic components. The Claimants alleged infringement of European Patent (UK) No. […]
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Posted: January 14th, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.V. v Asustek Computer Inc [2019] EWCA Civ 2230 (17 December 2019) In this judgment the Court of Appeal (Floyd LJ giving the only judgment) upheld the decisions of the Patents Court on the validity of three patents owned by the Claimant, Koninklijke Philips (‘Philips’). Arnold J (as he then was) had previously […]
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Posted: January 13th, 2020
Teva UK Limited and others v Gilead Sciences, Inc. [2019] EWCA Civ 2272 The Court of Appeal has dismissed Gilead Sciences, Inc.’s appeal against a decision by Arnold J (as he then was) that its supplementary protection certificate for a product used in the treatment of HIV was invalid. Background The appellant, Gilead Sciences, Inc. […]
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Posted: January 10th, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Asustek Computer Inc. Asus Europe B.V. and Asus Holland B.V. , Court of Appeal The Hague, The Netherlands, 24 December 2019, Case no. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2019:3427 Philips holds various patents in the field of UMTS technology, amongst which EP 659. In first instance, Philips tried to obtain an injunction against Asus, but the […]
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Posted: January 10th, 2020
European Intellectual Property Law, Text, Cases and Materials, Second Edition Annette Kur, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Thomas Dreier, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Stefan Luginbuehl, PhD, Attorney at Law, Lawyer, Head of Department European Legal Affairs, European Patent Office, Germany From the blurb: “The second edition of this popular textbook […]
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Posted: January 8th, 2020
Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Wiko SAS, Court of Appeal The Hague, The Netherlands, 24 December 2019, Case No. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2019:3433 Philips holds various UMTS patents, amongst which EP 659. In first instance, Philips was unsuccessful in its injunction proceedings against Wiko, as the Court denied the infringement claim and revoked the Patent based on Wiko’ counterclaim […]
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