McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 28 Sep 2023
Addressing a matter of first impression concerning the scope of prior art relevant to a design patent infringement analysis, the US Court of Appeals…
McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 20 Jul 2023
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a Patent Trial & Appeal Board non-obviousness decision, finding that the context…
Lee and Li Attorneys at Law | Taiwan | 3 Jul 2023
It is generally understood that there are two main differences between novelty and fictitious novelty. A recent decision issued by the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court considered the criteria for determining fictitious novelty, exploring the legislative purpose and foreign legislative examples of the Patent Act.
Studio Legale Previti | Italy | 1 Jun 2023
L’IA porterà vantaggi al procedimento di ricerca di anteriorità e all’esame di registrabilità di marchi di Impresa, contribuendo i) a diminuire i…
Grau & Angulo | Spain | 24 Apr 2023
Barcelona Commercial Court No. 4 recently lifted the preliminary injunctions it had previously granted ex parte at the request of Biogen. The injunctions prohibited the launch onto the Spanish market of dimethyl fumarate generic medicinal products. The Court concluded that the patent at stake seemed prima facie invalid due to its lack of inventive step, based on the prior art filed by the......
McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 20 Apr 2023
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the challenged patents were invalid as anticipated and obvious in a case involving claimed…
McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 20 Apr 2023
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed that challenged claims were invalid as anticipated based on principles of inherency where…
McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 23 Mar 2023
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, addressing the issue of whether certain factual and legal conclusions relating to obviousness were…
Westerberg & Partners Advokatbyrå AB | Sweden | 30 Jan 2023
Cases concerning infringement of works of applied art have become something of a trend in Sweden. This case, between a high-end furniture designer and a national chain and regarding infringement of a dining table, exemplifies this trend and garnered significant media attention in 2022. The first-instance outcome confirms the current Swedish case law in the area, including the continued......
Lee and Li Attorneys at Law | Taiwan | 23 Jan 2023
In a recent design patent infringement case involving electric bicycle and motorcycle designs, the opinions of the first-instance court, the second-instance court and the Supreme Court showed that the court's opinion on which features are considered to be "salient" has a decisive impact on the result of the judgment. This case shows that significant work remains to be done in order to......