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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

New Belgian copyright income rules

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Belgium
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  • December 31 2008

A new set of tax rules governing the copyright income of artists and authors has been recently introduced in Belgium

Extension of generic substitution and introduction of a reference price system in 2009

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Finland
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  • December 31 2008

A number of blockbusters will become subject to generic substitution in Finland earlier than in many other European countries, i.e. whilst valid product patents are still in force in other European countries

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…”

Infringement of database rights by ex-employees

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • 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

Regional Appeal Court refuses to apply copyright levies to computer printers

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
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  • June 4 2007

The Regional Appeal Court of Düsseldorf has decided that computer printers cannot be subject to copyright levies under German Law

Copyright protection Regulatory Authority for Technical Measures rules published

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • June 4 2007

The long-awaited decree setting out the organisational and procedural rules of the Regulatory Authority for Technical Measures (RATM) was issued on 4 April 2007

Life sciences patent litigation a summary of calendar year 2007

  • Bird & Bird
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2008

2007 saw slightly fewer fully contested first instance hearings in the life sciences sector in the English Patents Court on which judgment was given, than the previous year (on which we reported in March 2007

Figurative marks

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Sweden
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  • February 21 2008

The Swedish company Kapman AB (“Kapman”) sought to register the figurative mark in the colour blue corresponding to Pantone reference PMS 302U in class 8 for saw blades (for hand-operated tools

AG gives his opinion in veterinary medicinal product case regarding the restriction of the use of progesterone

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union
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  • February 28 2008

The opinion of the Advocate General (AG) Mazák in the case cp- Pharma Handels GmbH v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Case C-44806) was delivered on 16 January 2008

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