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EU patent package receives a mixed reaction

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • February 29 2012

The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has backed proposals for the new “EU patent package”, consisting of a unitary patent, language regime, and unified patent court

Italian patent data now in EPO database

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • June 23 2011

The European Patent Organisation (EPO) and the Italian Patent and Trademark Office recently agreed that Italian bibliographic data up to April 2011 and Italian citations from October 2008 can now be accessed on EPO’s worldwide database

Cephalon Inc v Orchid Europe Ltd: generics, interim injunctions and “clearing the way”

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2011

The High Court of England and Wales has refused to grant an interim injunction to Cephalon against Orchid Europe Ltd's generic version of Cephalon's patented sleeping disorders drug, modafinil

European Commission proposal for enhanced cooperation in unitary patent protection

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • February 28 2011

Twelve EU Member States have addressed a formal request to the European Commission indicating that they wish to establish a limited unitary patent between themselves

Long v Comptroller General of Patents: insufficiency and ambiguity

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 25 2011

Ms Long filed a patent application for an invention that provided car parks with an indicator for showing whether a space was occupied

Unilever plc v Ian Alexander Shanks: calculating employee compensation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 25 2011

Professor Shanks made an invention patented by his employer, Unilever UK Central Resources Ltd (CRL