EPLAW PATENT BLOG

NL – ARCELORMITTAL FRANCE V. TATA STEEL IJMUIDEN / APPEAL

Posted: April 1st, 2019

ArcelorMittal France v. Tata Steel IJmuiden B.V., Court of Appeal The Hague, 26 March 2019, Case No. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2019:575 First instance ArcelorMittal was the holder of European patent EP 2 242 863 B1 (“EP 863″), which relates to a “process for manufacturing stamped products, and stamped products prepared from the same”. Tata Steel and other parties […]

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NL – Boskalis v. Dredging

Posted: June 14th, 2017

District Court of The Hague 7 June 2017, Case no. 485407 / HA ZA 15-370, ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2017:5959, Baggermaatschappij Boskalis B.V. (‘Boskalis’) v. Dredging International N.V. (‘Dredging’) The present nullity proceedings initiated by Boskalis concern the dutch designation of European Patent EP 1 888 849 B2 for an “Apparatus with flexibly mounted spud carriage” held by Dredging. […]

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FR – Core v. LG

Posted: May 12th, 2017

Core Wireless Licensing (“Core”) asserted five patents related to UTMS, GSM, GPRS, EGPRS and LTE against LG Electronics France (“LGEF”) and LG Electronics Inc. (“LGEI”). In a ruling dated 17 April 2015, the Paris Court of First Instance ruled that none of the patents were essential to the standards and dismissed Core’s claims. In a […]

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BE – Nouvag / Malak – a costly second try at invalidity

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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UK – Global Flood Defence Systems v. Johan van den Noort / Costs

Posted: February 17th, 2016

Global Flood Defence Systems Limited and UK Flood Barriers Limited v Johan Van Den Noort Beheer BV, Johann Heinrich Reindert Van Den Noort and Flood Control International Limited, High Court of Justice of England and Wales, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HHJ Hacon), London UK, 5 February 2016, Neutral Citation Number: [2016] EWHC 189 (IPEC) On […]

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