Division was held to be enough for remittal to be ordered. T 688/16 T 688/16 relates to an appeal of the Decision of an Opposition Division to revoke EP2053959, a patent related to a method for assessing and guaranteeing the thermal hygiene efficiency in a multi-tank...
Eli Lilly is the patent holder of a drug called pemetrexed (Lilly brand “Alimta”) that has been the subject of court proceedings in the UK, which we have reported previously. This case concerns a related issue during US proceedings in which the US Federal...
J 0015/18 is a case concerning an appeal against the decision of the Receiving Section issued on European patent application no. 11827111.3 (originating from International patent application no. PCT/US2011/037235 ) to refuse a request filed under Rule 139 EPC to...
Background In Illumina v TDL & Ariosa [2019] EWHC 1159, an interesting question at hand was whether Illumina had to get the Court’s permission to rely on expert evidence which was used in a different case and then served under a hearsay notice in the present...
Background The patent in question in this case was EP2854723 in the name of Coloplast A/S and related to ostomy bags. The European patent was opposed by Hollister Inc on 16 April 2018 on the ground that the claimed invention was not new and did not involve an...
A copy of the decision (in French) can be read here and a copy of the EPO press release can be read here . Turning to the decision in a bit more detail, The President of the EPO referred the following question to the Enlarged Board of Appeal: “If notice of...
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