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Omnipharm v Merial winner gets it spot-on

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 23 2013

In Omnipharm Limited v Merial 2013 EWCA Civ 2, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales (CA) upheld a first instance decision to revoke one of

So when is a patent claim too broad?

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 27 2013

In Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v Genentech Inc 2013 EWCA Civ 93 the Court of Appeal dismissed the claimants' appeal, rejecting all their

Alcon puts the brakes on patent protection for AP Racing due to added matter

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 25 2013

Two rival suppliers of brake calipers used in racing cars in the motorsport industry recently went head to head in the Patents County Courts. AP

Added matter and omnibus claims: a UK perspective

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 12 2013

This decision of the UK Patents County Court provides insight into the differences between UK and EPO practice. It demonstrates a possibly more

HHJ Birss sees through Bristan’s excuses

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2013

This case, heard in the Patents County Court, concerns designs for electric shower units. Mira (the claimant) alleged that the Glee, Joy and Smile

Preventing use of disclosure outside of litigation - appropriate undertakings for the confidentiality club

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 22 2013

Over the past few months two actions concerning the validity and infringement of IPCom's European Patent EP 1,841,268 (IPCom v Nokia (Claim No: HC 10

Losing the right to use your own name the Cipriani saga

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 20 2013

In October 2008 a factually complex trade mark infringement and passing off case, involving the interpretation of agreements under Italian Law, came

CJEU decides on “business as usual” after ONE-L of a fight

  • EIP
  • -
  • European Union, Netherlands
  • -
  • January 25 2013

A test case cooked up by Benelux attorneys called into question one of the central tenets of the CTM system - that use of a CTM in just one member

Obvious to try in all but name?

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 18 2012

The applicability of the obvious to try question has been a thorny issue in UK patent law for some time, and the desire for a party seeking invalidity to apply this test has pervaded many recent pharmaceutical patent cases in the UK, particularly where the patent claims a single enantiomer and the prior art indicates that the racemate is pharmaceutically active, or more generally where the compound of the claim was previously disclosed as part of a larger group of potential compounds

Zynga hit triple word score as Mattel’s scrabble tile claim fails

  • EIP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 30 2012

Arnold J’s summary dismissal of an infringement claim based on a UK trade mark registration of a 3D representation of the familiar Scrabble tiles should cause owners of older “trade dress” registrations for more unusual marks to review their portfolio

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