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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

the Games. The judges of this chamber anticipate an exceptional volume of urgent intellectual property-related claims. The unique ad hoc organizational scheme of the Third Chamber of the Paris...

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...

to pay a penalty of EUR 100,000 for non-compliance with a preliminary injunction pronounced on September 19, 2023, in favor of 10x Genomics Inc. In parallel German national proceedings based on...

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...

that the infringement proceedings will be stayed at least until a final and absolute decision is rendered in the invalidity proceedings because of the revocation. Representatives of HUK-Coburg:...

on the grounds of a lack of patentability in view of prior art documents not considered in the examination procedure and a public prior use by a car model from 2002. With its judgment of March...

addressed several of the following key aspects: Particularities Effective relief and requirements Duration of proceedings Courts and judges Costs and their reimbursement Interplay of...

provisions of the UPCA would not be compatible with this. The “Valentine’s Day” decision of the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe is therefore a gift for lovers of national infringement proceed...