An improved Improver? Towards a UK Doctrine of Equivalents from ipkitten.blogspot.com Eli Lilly v Actavis UK [2017] UKSC 48
This is an important case about whether drugs manufactured by Actavis infringe a European patent of Lilly. The product in question is pemetrexed
which is an anti-cancer ...
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BGH grants compulsory license in preliminary proceedings from ipkitten.blogspot.com According to its
media release of 11 July 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the decision of the Federal Patent Court granting Merck a compulsory license to
EP 1 422 218 owned by ...
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Launch Of Book On TRIPS And Climate Change from www.ip-watch.org A new book being launched in Geneva next week reflects the growing recognition that the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) could play a more important role in the ...
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EPO Begins Process For New President, Administrative Council Head from www.ip-watch.org The European Patent Office is seeking a successor to President Benoît Battistelli, whose term ends in June 2018. Will a new chief and new Administrative Council (AC) chairman be able to resolve the never-ending turmoil ...
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WIPO Budget First Reading: Sustainable Development Goals, External Offices, Possible Treaty Negotiation from www.ip-watch.org The World Intellectual Property Organization members this week have discussed the first draft of the budget of the organisation for the biennium 2018/2019. Questions have been asked about how WIPO is contributing to the ...
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Attorney Fees Award in Exceptional Case Not Limited to Specific Instances of Misconduct from docketreport.blogspot.com The court awarded defendant over $1.8 million in attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and rejected plaintiff's argument that defendant was not entitled to recover fees for the entire case. "[Plaintiff ...
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Course Packs For Education Ruled Legal In India: Huge Triumph For Access To Educational Materials from www.ip-watch.org On 9 May 2017, a five year court battle between publishers and universities finally came to an end when the Supreme Court of India dismissed an appeal by the Indian Reprographic Rights Organization (IRRO) challenging ...
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They Invented What? (No. 17) from anticipatethis.wordpress.com Originally posted on
Anticipate This!™ | Patent and Trademark Law Blog:
U.S. Pat. No. 5,175,571: Glasses with subliminal message. The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed ...
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CAFC affirms ED Tex in ContentGuard from ipbiz.blogspot.com From ContentGuard v. Google [ Appeals from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Texas in Nos. 2:14-cv-00061-JRG, 2:16-cv-00176-JRG, Judge J. Rodney Gilstrap. ]
To be clear, there is no defense to ...
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Oral Argument of the day: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC v. ERICSSON INC. from www.717madisonplace.com The oral argument of the day comes from INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC v. ERICSSON INC., No. 2016-1803 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2017). This case is primarily an obviousness case. Interestingly, near the end of the ...
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PTAB Life Sciences Report from www.patentdocs.org By John Cravero -- About the PTAB Life Sciences Report: Each month we will report on developments at the PTAB involving life sciences patents. Celltrion, Inc. v Genentech, Inc. PTAB Petition: IPR2017-01121; filed March 21, 2017 ...
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News from Abroad -- UK Progress on Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) from www.patentdocs.org The UK has become the ninth state to deposit the document required to apply the Protocol on Provisional Application (PPA), which is an essential step towards formation of the UPC. Four more deposits, including that ...
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