Posted: April 14th, 2017
On 3 April 2017, the Mons court of appeal issued a judgment in a patent revocation action between Nouvag and Dr. Jean Malak (Docket nr. 2016/RG/263). The judgment, the latest in a series of decisions in relation to Dr. Malak’s patent nr. EP 0971754 for a liposuction apparatus, includes interesting considerations on res judicata and […]
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Posted: April 13th, 2017
Saahil Dama and Devvrat Joshi announce the launch of a new journal on IP law, Journal of Intellectual Property Studies “It is with immense pride that we are announcing the launch the inaugural issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Studies, which can be accessed on our website – https://journalofipstudies.org/. In the first issue, we have […]
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Posted: April 11th, 2017
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Europe) B.V. v. Novartis AG, Novartis Pharma GmbH, District Court The Hague, 5 April 2017, Case No. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2017:3430 The 5 April decision is the final decision in first instance. A previous interim decision was rendered on 25 November 2015 and was published on this blog here. Sun sued Novartis in main proceedings claiming […]
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Posted: April 6th, 2017
Unwired Planet International, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and Huawei Technologies UK Co. Ltd v. Unwired Planet LLC, High Court of Justice, London, UK, 5 April 2017, [2017] EWHC 711 (Pat) 806. In summary, my conclusions on the law are: (1) As a matter of French law the FRAND undertaking to ETSI is a legally enforceable […]
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Posted: April 6th, 2017
Stretchline Intellectual Properties Limited v. H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) Limited, UK, Court of Appeal, McCombe and Floyd LLJ, 30 March 2017 To what extent should the claims of a patent be construed so as to make a patent valid over the prior art? That was the critical question at the heart of H&M’s appeal from […]
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Posted: April 3rd, 2017
Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Co., Ltd (1) Samsung Bioepis UK Limited, (2) Biogen Idec Limited v AbbVie Biotechnology Limited, High Court of England and Wales, (Henry Carr J), London, UK, 3 March 2017, Neutral Citation Number: [2017] EWHC 395 (Pat) In this judgment, Henry Carr J granted Fujifilm Kyowa Biologics (FKB) and Samsung Bioepis/Biogen Idec […]
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Posted: March 29th, 2017
Koninklijke Philips NV v. Wiko SAS, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2017:2719, Koninklijke Philips NV v. Archos S.A., Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2017:2720, Koninklijke Philips NV v. Asustek Computer Inc., Asus Europe B.V. and Asus Holland B.V., Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2017:2721, District Court The Hague, 22 March 2017 The present dispute concerns an alleged infringement of the rights of Koninklijke Philips […]
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Posted: March 28th, 2017
European Patent Office, Technical Board of Appeal 3.2.05, T 577/11, decision of April 14, 2016, not to be published in OJ EPO – Entitlement to priority Headnotes 1 and 2 of the reported decision deal with the procedural aspect of admitting new submissions in second oral proceedings, headnotes 3 and 4 read as follows: 3. […]
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Posted: March 27th, 2017
Epoch Company Limited v Character Options Limited, UK, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Hacon HHJ, 22 March 2017 This case concerned a UK patent directed to a toy comprising transparent decorative beads made of water soluble resin. In use such beads are arranged on a tray in a desired pattern. Water is then sprayed on the […]
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Posted: March 27th, 2017
IPCom v HTC, UK Court of Appeal, 28 February 2017, neutral citation number [2017] EWCA Civ 90 The Court of Appeal has handed down the latest decision in the long running litigation between IPCom and HTC. IPCom had appealed the High Court’s decision that HTC’s smartphones did not infringe IPCom’s European Patent (UK) 1 841 […]
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