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The Patent Box
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- United Kingdom
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- January 9 2013
The Patent Box aims to provide a tax incentive for companies to develop and commercialise patents and patented products. Under the Patent Box Rules
Customary usage in the trade gains importance in determining infringement
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- Germany, United Kingdom
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- January 9 2013
There is a constellation (or fact pattern) in patent cases which at first may sound unlikely, but which upon closer inspection proves to be both
A review of the first four patent cases to come to trial in the PCC
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- United Kingdom
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- January 9 2013
The Patents County Court or PCC was established in 1990 as a lower cost forum for patent cases than the Patents Court. The intention was that it
Patent litigation statistics for 2011 and 2012
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- United Kingdom
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- January 9 2013
As in previous updates, we have summarised in the tables below the outcome of the decisions from the first instance and appeal courts for 2011 and
The Patents Court exercises jurisdiction to grant a pan-European declaration of non-infringement
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- January 9 2013
On 27 November 2012, the Patents Court handed down its judgment in an application to contest its jurisdiction to hear an action for a declaration of
UK patent box proposals
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- United Kingdom
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- June 30 2011
On 10 June HM Treasury published a consultation document on a patent box in the UK
UK Court of Appeal confirms law on amending patents post-EPC 2000
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- United Kingdom
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- May 6 2011
On the entering into force of the European Patent Convention 2000 ("EPC 2000") on 13 December 2007, the part of Article 138 of EPC 1973 dealing with amendments of patents was amended
H. Lundbeck AA v (1) Norpharma Spa (2) Infosint SA: prior use right and failure to register assignment of patent in UK 2011 EWHC 907 (Pat)
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- United Kingdom
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- May 3 2011
In his judgment of 14 April 2011 Mr Justice Floyd had (in addition to the usual patent infringement and validity issues) to deal with two slightly unusual questions
Can an authorisation for a human medicinal product provide basis for an SPC where its active was previously authorised in a veterinary medicinal product?
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- May 3 2011
As exemplified by Cases 19509 Synthon v Merz and C-42709 Generics (UK) v Synaptech, currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the recent opinions of the Advocate General which are discussed elsewhere in this update, one perennial source of controversy under the Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Regulations is what sort of authorisation constitutes a "first marketing authorisation in the Community."
UK Patents Court judgment in Mölnlycke Health Care AB v Brightwake Limited: weight to be attached to experiments (2011 EWHC 376 (pat))
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- United Kingdom
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- May 3 2011
In this case His Honour Judge Birss QC (the newly appointed Patents County Court judge) sitting as a judge of the Patents Court (High Court) considered infringement and validity of Mölnlycke's European Patent 0,633,757 (relating to wound dressings coated on one side with silicone gel
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