Background Ice-World, who is the proprietor of European patent No. 1462755, makes mobile ice rinks and leases them to third parties. Icescape also design and make mobile ice rinks, although in the past have operated a mobile ice rink leased to them from Ice-World....
Background Decision C-149/17 relates to litigation between Bastei Lübbe, a German phonogram producer and Michael Strozer regarding infringement of an audiobook via an internet connection to which Strozer and his parents shared access. The court in Munich, Germany that...
Warner-Lambert originally developed its compound pregabalin, which it sold under the mark Lyrica, as an anti-convulsant, anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic medication, in particular for the treatment of epilepsy and generalised anxiety disorder. It obtained patent...
Following the UK Supreme Court decision in Actavis v Eli Lilly in which Lord Neuberger concluded that the term “sodium” also covered “potassium” as an equivalent, a judgement was handed down in Milan also concerning the scope of protection of...
The two patent applications that were the subject of last week’s sequential hearings are both divisional applications of EP2771468 which was revoked in January 2018 and is currently under Appeal at the EPO. The two sequential hearings were consolidated with...
Gilead was the owner of an SPC for a combination of two actives, namely tenofovir and emtricitabine, which they market as Truvada®, which Teva and others wished to revoke. Interestingly, Gilead also sells tenofovir alone in the absence of an SPC. In accordance with...
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