Posted: September 13th, 2021
Introduction With Decision No. 1785 of 8 June 2021, the Court of Appeal of Milan upheld Court of Milan Decision No. 8273 of 24 July 2018 finding Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (“Teva”) and its Italian affiliate Sicor Società Italiana Corticosteroidi S.r.l (“Sicor”) liable for patent infringement. The appeal court ruled that the Bolar exemption under […]
READ MOREPosted: November 22nd, 2018
Network Homes Limited v. Maurice Harlow, High Court of Justice, London, 16 November 2018, citation number [2018] EWHC 3120 (Ch) This case concerned the construction of a contract. However, the judge (Mr Justice Carr, one of the UK Patents Court’s main judges) noted that the same issue of the correct approach to construction also arises […]
READ MOREPosted: May 22nd, 2017
The 2017 Young EPLAW Congress gave 20 volunteers the opportunity to participate in the project launched in 2013, called “How to plead a case” and kindly hosted again by HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER Brussels. During this mock case, two panels of two Board members sitting as mock judges each heard five sets of plaintiffs and defendants […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2015
Unwired Planet International Limited v (1) Huawei Technologies Co. Limited, (2) Huawei Technologies (UK) Co. Limited, (3) Samsung Electronics Co. Limited, (4) Samsung Electronics (UK) Limited & Others The English Patents Court has upheld the validity of EP (UK) 2 229 744, which relates to an efficient polling system for a wireless communications network and […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2015
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Europe) B.V. v. Novartis AG and Novartis Pharma GmbH, District Court of The Hague, The Netherlands, 25 November 2015, Case file number: C/09/469148 / HA ZA 14-770. In January of this year the Court of Appeal of The Hague in preliminary injunction proceedings held Sun liable for indirect infringement of Novartis’ Swiss […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2015
Saab Seaeye Limited -v- Atlas Electronic GmbH and ECS Special Projects Limited and Adrian Dann and Blueprint Design Engineering Limited (t/a Blueprint Subsea) and James Barratt, High Court (Patents Court), Mr Justice Mann, 4 November 2015 The English Patents Court has partially upheld the validity of two patents, GB 2 482 576 (GB 576) and […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2015
Warner-Lambert Company LLC v Sandoz GmBH, Sandoz Limited and Lloyds Pharmacy Limited, England and Wales Patents Court (Arnold J), London, UK, 4 November 2015, Neutral Citation Number: [2015] EWHC 3153 (Pat) This judgment concerned an application for an interim injunction restraining Sandoz from any further dealing in its full label generic pregabalin product and Lloyds […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2015
Enlarged Board of Appeal, decision in case Art. 23 1/15 – Request for a proposal of removal from office Background Pursuant to Article 23 (1), 1st sentence, EPC, a member of the Boards of Appeal may not be removed from office during his term of 5 years, “except if there are serious grounds for such […]
READ MOREPosted: December 3rd, 2015
S.A. Ethypharm v. Alkermes Pharma Ireland Limited, Court of Appeal, Paris, France, 3 November 2015, No. 184/2015, with thanks to Raphaëlle Dequiré-Portier, GIDE LOYRETTE NOUEL, for sending in the case, together with a head note and translation in English In this decision, the Court of Appeal has reversed the First Instance decision of 21 December […]
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