defendants in favor of a third-party licensee. 3. Decision of the German Federal Court of Justice To summarize briefly, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the infringement of the...

87(1) EPC in favor of the EPO’s competence and the autonomous law of the EPC. The EBoA moreover circumvented the disputed concept of the “PCT joint applicants approach” in favor of the even more...

facilitate the summary review by infringement courts of lower instances of the prospects of nullity proceedings in the context of the examination of a stay of infringement proceedings. However,...

available legal protection meets the standard of the guarantee of an effective remedy before an independent tribunalin Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. In parallel to...

first time in the history of the UPC system ruled on the requirements for the finding of infringement of second medical use claims. The Court held that for a finding of infringement of second...

57 of the Withdrawal Agreement provides that the proprietors of such rights shall ipso iure become the holders of an enforceable intellectual property right in the United Kingdom, under the law ...

revision of the EPC implementing the organisational autonomy of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office within the European Patent Organisation). The independence of the members of...

and the freedom of speech (decisions of the 3rd Chamber of the First Senate of the FCC dated September 30, 2018, case no. 1 BvR 1783/17 and case no. 1 BvR 2421/17; see our IP Report of December...

the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) 1 was drafted from the perspective of the Boards of Appeal. Obviously, the project aims at increasing the efficiency of the Boards of Appeal and the predictability of...

Board of Appeal primarily confirmed the reasoning of the previous decision. The Board of Appeal upheld the finding that the sound sequence reproduced the effect of acceleration or increased...

Board of Appeal: a. Questions 1 and 2 “1. Is a product put on the market before the date of filing of a European patent application to be excluded from the state of the art within the meaning of...

, (i) a confidential assessment of the FRAND determination, (ii) a confidential summary of the main issues of disagreement and (iii) a methodology and an assessment of the FRAND determination 15...