Posted: October 3rd, 2017
Fresenius Kabi Oncology PLC and Fresenius Kabi Italia S.r.l. (“Fresenius”) sought before the Court of Milan a urgent declaration of non-infringement with respect to their new antitumor drug based on pemetrexed diacid in combination with tromethamine. Fresenius requested the Court to declare that its drug does not infringe – whether directly or indirectly – EP […]
READ MOREPosted: August 30th, 2017
Ruby Decor B.V. and Aparto B.V. v. Basic Holdings ULC, Court of Appeal The Hague, 22 August 2017, Case No. ECLI:NL:GHDHA:2017:2409, with thanks to Alexander Tsoutsanis, DLA Piper, for sending in the judgment as well as an English translation thereof Artificial fireplaces. Earlier, the Judge in PI proceedings ruled that in his preliminary opinion Ruby Decor did […]
READ MOREPosted: July 12th, 2017
Actavis UK Limited and others v Eli Lilly and Company, UK Supreme Court, 12 July 2017, [2017] UKSC 48 The UK Supreme Court today gave its judgment in the long-running Actavis v Eli Lilly case concerning Lilly’s Alimta vitamin regimen patents in the UK, France, Italy and Spain. The Supreme Court allowed Lilly’s appeal and […]
READ MOREPosted: June 9th, 2017
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG v. VSY Biotechnology B.V. et al., District Court The Hague, The Netherlands, 7 June 2017, Case No. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2017:6136 European Patent on an intraocular (implantable) lens. Interpretation of claims. The Dutch part of the patent is valid: the hurdles of novelty, inventive step and enablement were all taken successfully. The patent is […]
READ MOREPosted: May 1st, 2017
(1) Teva UK Limited, (2) Accord Healthcare Limited, (3) Generics (UK) Limited trading as Mylan v Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation Arnold J held that Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation’s (“MSD”) SPC was invalid as it did not comply with either Article 3(a) or Article 3(c) of the SPC Regulation. The SPC in issue was […]
READ MOREPosted: April 6th, 2017
Stretchline Intellectual Properties Limited v. H&M (Hennes & Mauritz) Limited, UK, Court of Appeal, McCombe and Floyd LLJ, 30 March 2017 To what extent should the claims of a patent be construed so as to make a patent valid over the prior art? That was the critical question at the heart of H&M’s appeal from […]
READ MOREPosted: March 27th, 2017
IPCom v HTC, UK Court of Appeal, 28 February 2017, neutral citation number [2017] EWCA Civ 90 The Court of Appeal has handed down the latest decision in the long running litigation between IPCom and HTC. IPCom had appealed the High Court’s decision that HTC’s smartphones did not infringe IPCom’s European Patent (UK) 1 841 […]
READ MOREPosted: January 5th, 2017
HTW Infiltratietechniek B.V. v. Permavoid Limited, Court of Appeal of the Hague, the Netherlands, 27 December 2016, Case number C/09/456139 / HA ZA 13-1362 Permavoid is the holder of European patent EP 1 311 727 B1 for ‘a pavement with structural module’. All claims of EP ‘727 are directed to a ‘vehicular trafficked pavement structure’. […]
READ MOREPosted: November 7th, 2016
Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings Limited v Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (UK) Limited and Sandoz Limited, England & Wales Court of Appeal, London, UK, 1 November 2016, Neutral Citation Number [2016] EWCA Civ 1053 This was an appeal from a decision of Arnold J holding that there was no infringement of European Patent (UK) 2 305 194 (‘the […]
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