multinational design infringement proceedings as well as invalidity proceedings before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market in Alicante and the Court of Justice of the European...

May Tan is a Partner and head of the Trade Marks Practice of the Intellectual Property Department of Yusarn Audrey. May Tan’s areas of practice include contentious and non-contentious...

because of her work at Eisenführ Speiser. She focuses, inter alia, on the representation of patent pools and proprietors of standard-essential patents in complex patent infringement proceedings...

release of February 6, 2015 More than 2 ½ years after a complex dispute over the infringement of Community design No. 1733288-0001 started, which shows an unusual clock face divided into six...

counsel and US attorneys. Format: Live stream The UPC’s approach towards the burden of production is currently in a state of evolution. This developing case law is likely to have a direct impact...

enforcement of such patents from the enforcement of patents in other technical fields. This is true not only to proceedings on the merits, but also regarding preliminary injunction proceedings....

nt proceedings play out? Will the Federal Patent Court issue fully-fledged preliminary opinions within six months of service of the complaint, as foreseen by the new law? What will be the impact...

nt proceedings play out? Will the Federal Patent Court issue fully-fledged preliminary opinions within six months of service of the complaint, as foreseen by the new law? What will be the impact...

GmbH was ordered to bear the costs of the proceedings based on a value in litigation of EUR 5 million. The decision is open to appeal. The nullity proceedings are part of a bigger infringement...

Anna Giedke specializes in patent infringement proceedings before the UPC and national courts and is experienced with patent-related antitrust and contractual matters. Anna represents leading...

directed against decisions of the EPO. At least in one of those cases the claimant alleges lack of independence of the Boards of Appeal in the context of the principle of separation of powers....

examination of original support to the detriment of an exhaustive examination of inventive step. This webinar discusses whether German patent nullity proceedings, initiated after expiry of the...

examination of original support to the detriment of an exhaustive examination of inventive step. This webinar discusses whether German patent nullity proceedings, initiated after expiry of the...

release of March 17, 2014 BARDEHLE PAGENBERG has been successful before the Board of Appeal of the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) in Alicante, Spain, in upholding two...

not seem to be allowable for lack of novelty, or at least lack of inventive step. On November 20, 2024, the oral hearing in the appeal proceedings took place. At the end of the oral hearing, the...

decision. In the meantime, however, the proceedings before the European Court of Justice have been discontinued because of a withdrawal of complaint in the main proceedings. [...] to be excluded...

was no longer necessary and the proceedings were terminated. The background of this case is that NanoString had already previously tried to obstruct/delay the grant of an injunction in parallel...

the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) rendered a decision regarding the requirements for the validity assessment of the patent-in-suit in preliminary injunction (“PI”) proceedings. Even though...