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...

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...

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...

NanoString in September 2023, which was later lifted by the Court of Appeal, namely in February 2024, in view of validity concerns in the context of preliminary relief sought. This marks another...

five years of non-use in the EU 27. The most difficulties will be experienced on the level of enforcement. Any infringement proceeding initiated before the exit day will be decided on the basis ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

EEUPC of its obligation to refer issues of interpretation or validity of Union law to the ECJ and, more broadly, observance of Union law as such. Third , the language system of the central...

the patent EP 3 822 805 (“EP 805”) of DISH Technologies L.L.C. (“DISH”) after oral proceedings on the same day. In the earlier proceedings before the Regional Court of Munich I and the UPC...

flexible in tailoring the ideal IP protection in consideration of the risks and benefits of the respective systems. In the fourth part of our IP Experts LIVE series on the Unitary Patent and the...

Press release of March 19, 2012 BARDEHLE PAGENBERG has been successful in a series of three Community design invalidity proceedings before the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market...

European Patent 1 570 489 (docket no. 7 O 75/18). The infringement proceedings before the Regional Court of Mannheim are part of a wider complex of patent disputes between WiLAN and Micron...

cases at the Regional Court of Munich were already stayed in the meantime in light of said nullity complaint. In the present decision of the Federal Patent Court, the invalidity of the patent...

designs (RCD) in a series of parallel Community design invalidity proceedings (Cases ICD 9050 – 9062). Proceedings had been initiated against Blue Gentian, LLC, Florida, USA, on behalf of...

pursuant to the written preliminary opinion of the Federal Patent Court of February 7, 2023, the patent is valid in the form asserted in the infringement proceedings. A trial was scheduled for...