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....
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...
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...
Patents, Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) and the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Trade Marks and Designs Copyright Exhaustion of Rights Please click on one of the hyperlinks above to go to the particular guidance note. The overarching intention of the...
In Jushi v OCV, Jushi Group Co., Ltd applied to the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court to revoke European Patent 1831118 in the name of OCV Intellectual Capital LLC. Jushi alleged that the patent lacked novelty and was obvious over US Patent Application No....
Introduction SPCs are national rights provided for by EU regulations. The European Commission published a proposal for a new Regulation on 28 May 2018 to amend Regulation (EC) No469/2009 concerning the SPC for medicinal products. Further details of the proposal can be...
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