Posted: October 17th, 2016
Budapest Metropolitan Appeal Court delivers clear interpretation on lack of exclusive jurisdiction on IP transfer agreements Does the choice of forum clause apply when the validity of an IP transfer agreement is questioned? This was one of several procedural issues for the Metropolitan Court and the Metropolitan Appeal Court to resolve in a recent proceeding. […]
READ MOREPosted: October 10th, 2016
Golden helmet for a small French company: more than €1,500,000 in damages for the infringement of a patent covering a bike helmet (after a $8,100,000 settlement agreement with a prior infringer) Time Sport International v. Decathlon and D-H-G Knauer, tribunal de grande instance de Paris, France, 1 June 2016, docket № 10/05487, with thanks to […]
READ MOREPosted: October 6th, 2016
Request for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Riigikohus (Supreme Court, Estonia), made by decision of 21 October 2015, received at the Court on 2 November 2015, in the proceedings F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG v Accord Healthcare OÜ, 5 October 2016, Case C‑572/15 1. The Court of Justice of the European Union […]
READ MOREPosted: September 27th, 2016
Quest Integrety USA LLC v. A. Hak Industrial Services B.V., District Court The Hague (PI Judge), the Netherlands, 21 September 2016, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2016:11387 Request for access to evidence located in the Netherlands for use in US patent infringement proceedings. The PI Judge rules that Article 1019 DCCP (implementation of the Enforcement Directive) is not […]
READ MOREPosted: September 22nd, 2016
Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf on the relevance of patent infringement in tender proceedings (decision of December 1, 2015 – Case VII-Verg 20/15) Bidders in tender proceedings lack the necessary personal suitability if offering their tendered products would constitute patent infringement, thus making it legally impossible to adequately perform the services tendered. The tendering authority […]
READ MOREPosted: September 20th, 2016
Fujifilm Kyowa Kirin Biologics Company Limited v AbbVie Biotechnology Limited and AbbVie Limited (Arnold J), London, UK, 8 September 2016, Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWHC 2204 (Pat) This judgment of Arnold J relates to an application made by the Defendants (collectively “AbbVie”) in the context of a wider claim in which the Claimant (“FKB”) had […]
READ MOREPosted: September 15th, 2016
Koninklijke Philips NV v Asustek Computer Inc., HTC Corporation and others, UK Patents Court, Arnold J, 9 September 2016, Neutral Citation Number [2016] EWHC 2220 (Pat) This judgment relates to a preliminary issue in a dispute between Philips and ASUS/HTC. In the main dispute Philips have alleged that the defendants have infringed patents that are […]
READ MOREPosted: September 13th, 2016
Nicocigs Limited v. Fontem Holdings 1 BV, UK Patents Court, Mr John Baldwin QC, 2 September 2016, 2016 EWHC 2161 (Pat) In this action Nicocigs sought to revoke European Patent (UK) 2 022 349 and/or a declaration that its products did not infringe the patent. The patent concerned electronic cigarettes, a market that has expanded […]
READ MOREPosted: September 12th, 2016
Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe B.V. v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & CO.KG, District Court The Hague, the Netherlands, 7 September 2016, Case number 489185 / KG ZA 15-15-625 In the present proceedings initiated by Teva against Boehringer before the District Court of The Hague, Teva successfully claims annulment of certain (amended) claims of the Dutch part […]
READ MOREPosted: September 7th, 2016
District Court The Hague 27 July 2016, C/09/485397 / HA-ZA 15-366 (VWS vs. Ventraco et al) VWS owns a European patent, EP 2 389 415 B1 (“EP 415”), in which a method for rejuvenating a bitumen containing composition (such as asphalt) is claimed. The method according to claim 1 comprises, amongst other features, a distillation […]
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