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Patents Court upholds supplementary protection certificate for a novel enantiomer in Generics UK Limited v Daiichi

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

Generics (UK) Limited (“GUK”) was unsuccessful in its attempt before the Patents Court (Mr Justice Kitchin) to revoke Daiichi's Supplementary Protection Certificate (“SPC”) in respect of levofloxacin

EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal rejects patent that requires human embryos for implementation

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 31 2008

In its decision of 25 November 2008 the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) considered four questions referred to it by the EPO Technical Board of Appeal concerning a patent application by Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) with claims to “a cell culture comprising primate embryonic stem cells…”

Pirate Bay Four forced to walk the plank

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Sweden, United Kingdom
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  • May 6 2009

A Swedish court has found the co-founders of the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, guilty of criminal copyright infringement

Betting rights hunting the snark

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 21 2009

Recently, tournament organisers and other sport-related entities have started to speak about “betting rights” as if a new form of legal property had dawned

The sweet smell of success

  • NautaDutilh
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • September 2 2009

The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") recently issued an important judgment on comparative advertising and trademark infringement in L'Oréal SA v. Bellure NV

UK proposes to allow private copying of music and films

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • February 20 2008

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has issued a consultation paper which includes a proposal to allow "format shifting"

Computer programs clarification of patentabilty

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 20 2008

Patenting software in the UK has for some time been a difficult task

Infringement of database rights by ex-employees

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 21 2008

On 20 December 2007, Mr Justice Peter Smith handed down his judgment in a case brought by Crowson seeking to restrain the Defendants from using confidential information and requiring them to deliver up copies of documents containing confidential information

Care required when drafting definitions and recitals following Court of Appeal decision

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 27 2009

In the case of Oxonica Energy Limited v Neuftec Limited, the Court of Appeal was asked to interpret a patent licence

Delay not fatal to copyright royalty claim

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 27 2009

A dispute over the ownership of copyright in Procul Harum’s "A Whiter Shade of Pale" has been ruled upon by the House of Lords (HoL