Background This case is a preliminary ruling from the Courts of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) following a referral from the German Federal Patent Court regarding Supplementary Protection Certificates. In particular, the referral relates to Article 3(a) of EU...
There is a successful German comedy film that has been followed by not one but two sequels. Would you expect the title of such a comedy to be registerable as a trade mark? You might, but the title of the comedy is “Fack Ju Göhte” and, basically, was...
Background In T 1063/18 (Peppers), the Board held that Rule 28(2) EPC should be disregarded, and that plants produced by essentially biological processes should be considered patentable. Specifically, the Board found that the EPO Administrative Council’s...
Genentech owns US Patents 7,846,441 and 7,892,549 which both relate to treating cancers characterised by overexpression of the ErbB2 receptor (which includes breast cancers). The claims of these two patents relate to treating a human patient with a combination of an...
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“Crown Use”, by which the government can order the infringement of the patent under particular circumstances, is a provision of the UK Patents Act 1977 that is seldom used. However, in the case of IPCom vs Vodafone, this seldom used provision has been...
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