Posted: March 11th, 2024
Novartis A.G. v. Mylan B.V. and Mylan Ireland Limited, Supreme Court The Hague, The Netherlands, 8 March 2024, Case no. ECLI:NL:HR:2024:341 Appeal to the Supreme Court regarding fingolimod. Earlier, Novartis alleged Mylan infringed its Patent. In first instance PI proceedings, the preliminary relief Judge ruled that there was a serious, non negligible chance that the […]
READ MOREPosted: February 28th, 2024
NanoString Technologies, Inc, NanoString Technologies Germany GmbH & NanoString Technologies Netherlands B.V. v. 10x Genomics, Inc & President and Fellows of Harvard College – Court of Appeal – Luxembourg, 26 February 2024, Case no. UPC_CoA_335/2023 App_576355/2023, by Sarah Taylor and Julia Traumann, Pinsent Masons The Unified Patent Court (‘UPC’) Court of Appeal has overturned an […]
READ MOREPosted: February 22nd, 2024
Plant-e Knowledge v Arkyne Technologies – The Hague Local Division takes pragmatic approach to bifurcation by Sarah Taylor, Pinsent Masons Plant-e Knowledge B.V & Plant-e B.V. v Arkyne Technologies S.L – Court of First Instance – The Hague (NL) Local Division, 15 February 2024, Case no. UPC_CFI_239/2023 A topic often discussed prior to the UPC’s […]
READ MOREPosted: February 20th, 2024
Dutch Trading Office B.V. v. CNC Grondstoffen B.V., District Court The Hague, The Netherlands, 23 October 2023, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2023:15621 Method of transporting mushroom compost. No infringement: “Placing blocks on pallets in this manner does not meet the characteristics that stacked compost blocks are supported by spacer(s), providing rows and columns of stacked blocks, leaving […]
READ MOREPosted: February 2nd, 2024
Janssen Biotech Inc. v. Samsung Bioepis NL B.V., PI Proceedings, District Court The Hague, The Netherlands, 23 January 2024, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2024:701 PI proceedings, SPC. Explanation of Manufacturing Waiver Regulation (EU) No. 2019/933. Manufacturing of biosimilar for export to third countries. Samsung Bioepis successfully invokes the manufacturing waiver. Reference number of marketing authorisation in export […]
READ MOREPosted: January 29th, 2024
Commercial Court no. 4 of Barcelona, TEKNICS v. CIBERNETICA, Judgment of 19 March 2023, ECLI:ES:JMB:2023:1261 The plaintiff, S. R. Teknics Project 2016, S. L. (hereinafter, TEKNICS) filed a complaint against CIBERNETICA PARA LA PANIFICACION, S.L. (hereinafter, CIBERNETICA) for the infringement of Spanish patent ES 2279737 protecting a “dough-kneading machine”. The entire contribution can be read […]
READ MOREPosted: January 23rd, 2024
SEaB Power Ltd. v. The Waste Transformers Nederland B.V. et al., Court of Appeal The Hague, The Netherlands, 12 December 2023, Case no. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2023:2688 Joined cases related to the use of technology for portable Renewable Energy Microgeneration facilities (hereinafter: REM facilities) that allow biogas to be extracted from organic waste at the location where that […]
READ MOREPosted: January 23rd, 2024
Mylan AB v. Gilead Sciences Finland Oy, Gilead Biopharmaceutics Ireland UC, Gilead Sciences Inc, 11 January 2024, Case no. C‑473/22 Article 9(7) of Directive 2004/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which provides for […]
READ MOREPosted: November 27th, 2023
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation v Meril Italy srl (UPC, Central Division) – order dismissing preliminary objection questioning the compe-tence of the Central Division, based on comprehensive interpretation of the term “same parties” pursuant to Article 33(4) UPCA, by Dr. Michael Kobler, Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich Edwards Lifesciences Corporation (hereinafter: “Edwards”) filed an infringement action based on EP […]
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