EPLAW PATENT BLOG

NL – High Point v. KPN

Posted: June 20th, 2018

High Point SARL v. KPN B.V., Court of Appeal The Hague, The Netherlands, 5 June 2018, Case no. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2018:1271 High Point is the owner of EP 0 522 772 which relates to a ‘Wireless access telephone-to-telephone network interface architecture’. It has sued KPN for infringement. KPN, in turn, has claimed the invalidation of EP 772. […]

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UK – Regeneron v. Kymab and Novo Nordisk

Posted: June 4th, 2018

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc v Kymab Limited and Novo Nordisk A/S, UK Court of Appeal, 23 May 2018, [2018] EWCA 1186 (Civ) This is a judgment from the Court of Appeal on the appropriate form of order to be made following its finding that two of Regeneron’s patents are valid and infringed. At first instance, Henry […]

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DE – Confidentiality roulette in SEP proceedings

Posted: May 30th, 2018

Confidentiality roulette in SEP infringement proceedings, by Alexander Haertel and Jonas Block, Kather Augenstein On 25 April 2018 the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf has continued its elaborated case-law with regard to confidentiality arrangements in standard essential patent (SEP) litigation (I-2 W 8/18). The Court deepened its transparency-approach taken already in a decision in January […]

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UK – Conversant v. Huawei and ZTE

Posted: May 24th, 2018

Conversant Wireless Licensing S A R. L. v. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, Huawei Technologies (UK) and ZTE Corporation, High Court of Justice, Patents Court, Justice Henry Carr, Case No. [2018] EWHC 1216 (Ch) Case management decision. Mr Justice Carr has given Huawei and ZTE permission to appeal his previous judgment regarding the UK court’s jurisdiction […]

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UK – Conversant Wireless v Huawei Technologies and  ZTE Corporation / FRAND

Posted: April 20th, 2018

Conversant Wireless Licensing S.A.R,L v (1) Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., (2) Huawei Technologies (UK) Co. Ltd, (3) ZTE Corporation (4) ZTE (UK) Limited, High Court of Justice, London, UK, 16 April 2018, [2018] EWHC 808 (Pat) Are the UK Courts an appropriate forum for hearing a global FRAND dispute where alleged infringement of Chinese patents […]

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UK – Illumina v. Premaitha

Posted: April 18th, 2018

(1) Illumina, Inc. & (2) Sequenom, Inc v (1) Premaitha Health plc & (2) Premaitha Limited; (1) TDL Genetics Ltd, (2) The Doctors Laboratory Ltd & (3) Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. (19 March 2018, Patents Court, UK, Case Nos. HP-2017-000054 and HP-2017-000075) The UK Patents Court refused to strike out two patent infringement actions concerning a […]

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UK – Edwards v. Boston

Posted: April 16th, 2018

Edwards v Boston, UK Patents Court, Floyd LJ, 30-31 January 2018, HHJ Hacon 21 March 2018 The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s decision that one of two patents owned by Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. relating to replacement heart valves was invalid, and the other valid and infringed by Edwards Lifesciences companies. In […]

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SE – Sandoz v. ViiV Healthcare

Posted: March 2nd, 2018

Sandoz A/S v. ViiV Healthcare UK Limited, Patent and Market Court of Appeal, Sweden, 30 June 2017, Docket No. PMÖ 3565-17 Sandoz requested that the preliminary injunction barring its pharmaceutical products Abacavir/Limavudine Sandoz 600 mg/300 mg from being marketed and sold on the Swedish market be vacated. The Patent and Market Court of Appeal overturned […]

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NL – Ono v. Pfizer

Posted: March 1st, 2018

Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Limited v. Pfizer Inc., Interlocutory Judge District Court The Hague, 27 February 2018, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2018:2284 Ono filed a European patent application EP ‘517 A1 entitled: ‘Immunopotentiating compositions comprising anti-PD-L1 antibodies’. After the rejection of Pfizer’s third party observations at the EPO, Pfizer lodged proceedings at the German Verwaltungsgericht in Munich claiming […]

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