The main issue was whether the lis pendens rules in Articles 29–31 of the Brussels I Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012, recast) apply to determine the relationship between the German revocation and UPC revocation proceedings. Mala argued these rules should...
The matter started when Amgen sued various Sanofi companies and Regeneron for patent infringement of their EP3666797 patent. The patent claims an antibody that binds to the catalytic domain of a PCSK9 protein and its use in treating or preventing...
When the European Union’s new Unified Patent Court (“UPC”) opened for business in June last year, its jurisdiction only extended to 17 of the 27 EU Member States. A further 7 Member States committed to joining at a later date, with Croatia, Spain, and Poland opting...
On 24 April 2024, in case UPC_CFI_316/2023, the UPC’s Paris Central Division granted Nicoventures Trading Limited access to written pleadings and evidence in a patent revocation case brought by NJOY Netherlands B.V. against Juul Labs International, Inc concerning...
The UPC’s rules of procedure provide that when deciding whether to grant a preliminary injunction, the court may require the party applying for the preliminary injunction to show with a “sufficient degree of certainty” that the patent in question is valid and...
The application for the issue of an injunction resulted from a dispute between myStromer AG, the proprietor of European Patent No. 2546134, and RevoltZycling AG, the alleged infringer of the European patent in question. The Judge’s reasoning for issuing the...
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