Posted: October 18th, 2022
G 2/21 on post-published evidence and plausibility – Preliminary Opinion of the EBA, reported by Dr. Klaus Reindl and Dr. Georg Anetsberger, Bardehle Pagenberg With the decision T 116/18, three questions were referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the EPO relating to post-published evidence. The EBA now issued its preliminary opinion as […]
READ MOREPosted: May 19th, 2022
Bristol-Myers Squibb Holdings Ireland Unlimited Company v. Sandoz B.V., District Court The Hague (interlocutory decision), 10 May 2022, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2022:4385 BMS markets the medicine Eliquis®, with apixaban as the active ingredient. Apixaban is a substance that inhibits the action of factor Xa. Inhibiting factor Xa helps prevent blood clots from forming. Eliquis® is used […]
READ MOREPosted: November 18th, 2021
Nutrition Sciences N.V. v. Kuminda N B.V., Court of Appeal, The Hague, The Netherlands, 29 June 2021, Case no. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2021:2055 Nutrition is active in the field of ingredients for live stock feed and alleged that Noba infringes on the Dutch part of its EP 1 294 371 B2 relating to “medium chain fatty acids applicable […]
READ MOREPosted: August 14th, 2021
Astrazeneca v. Teva, Court of Milan, 3 December 2020, docket number 7930/2020 Headnote On 3 December 2020, the Court of Milan rejected the claim of infringement of Astrazeneca patent EP 1272195 (“EP’195”) by the generic Fulvestrant of Teva and declared invalid the Italian portion of such patent for lack of inventive step. The decision also […]
READ MOREPosted: October 15th, 2019
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., and Teva Denmark A/S (“Teva”) v. Mylan AB (“Mylan”), the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court, Case number BS-38788/2018-SHR, 15 March 2019 The case concerns infringement of the patents DK/EP 2 949 335, DK/EP 2 630 962 and DK/EP 3 199 172, which are owned by Yeda Research & Development Company, […]
READ MOREPosted: August 8th, 2019
Novartis Pharma A.G., Novartis Pharmaceutical AG and Novartis AG v. TEVA Nederland B.V., District Court The Hague, The Netherlands, Judge in Interlocutory Proceedings, 5 July 2019, Case No. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2019:7792 Teva holds a Dutch marketing authorization for the generic version of everolimus, named Everolimus Teva. In the SmPC and and the Patient Information Leaflet of Everolimus […]
READ MOREPosted: March 11th, 2019
Eli Lilly And Company & Ors v Genentech, Inc [2019] EWHC 387 and 388 (Pat) (01 March 2019) This was a claim brought by Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”) for revocation of Genentech’s patent EP (UK) No. 1,641,822 (the “Patent”) entitled “IL-17A/F heterologous peptides and therapeutic uses thereof”. Genentech does not have a marketed product […]
READ MOREPosted: November 14th, 2018
The UKSC has introduced a new test for the infringement of Swiss form second medical use claims and clarified the application of the test for plausibility of purpose-limited claims, by Tim Powell, Bethan Hopewell, Siddharth Kusumakar and Joel Coles, Powell Gilbert LLP The United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) today handed down its highly-anticipated judgment in the […]
READ MOREPosted: February 21st, 2018
LEO Pharma A/S v. Sandoz, Court of Appeal of The Hague, the Netherlands, 7 November 2017, published 12 February 2018, Case no. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2017:4029 LEO Pharma is the holder of the European patent EP 2 455 083 B1 titled “Pharmaceutical composition for dermal use comprising calcipotriol and betamethasone for treating psoriasis”. The patent was granted on […]
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