News & Insights (Patent Licensing)

AG in Neurim allows SPCs for usage patents

Case C-130/11 Neurim Pharmaceuticals In Neurim the UK court is seeking additional clarification from the European Court of ...

NHS Primary Care Trusts challenged in the UK for use of cheaper drug off-licence

Novartis announced on Tuesday that it is seeking a judicial review of a decision made by four NHS Primary Care Trusts to approve ...

EU Patent and unified patent litigation system - Update July 2011

Despite the tortuous route to a unified patent and a unified patent litigation court in Europe, both now appear to be a small ...

The EU Patent and the European and EU Patents Court - an update

Following the CJEU opinion on the unified patent litigation system on the 8 March and the European Council vote on the unified ...

The EU Patent and the European and EU Patents Court - March 2011 could be a critical month

At the end of 2010 we posed the question - are we any closer to a unified patent system for Europe? Well, last week, using a fast ...

InFocus: Life Sciences & Healthcare e-newsletter - January 2011

Welcome to the January 2011 edition of InFocus, the Life Sciences and Healthcare newsletter. This month we discuss: Sold Out - ...

New European rules on agreements between competitors

The New Research & Development and Specialisation Block Exemption Regulations and Horizontal Co-Operation Agreements ...

More heartburn for the pharma sector

The European Commission has escalated its crackdown on the pharma sector, conducting dawn raids yesterday on the originator ...

LEGO Block

Lego has lost its appeal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Yesterday, the ECJ upheld the General Court’s finding that the ...

Court of Justice follows AG's opinion and limits the scope of DNA patents

We reported previously on Advocate General ("AG") M Paolo Mengozzi's non-binding opinion to the Court of Justice of the ...

Patents and the EU medtech sector: a slumbering volcano

Tim Worden discusses the patent situation regarding medical devices in the EU in this article written by Faraz Kermani for the ...

German Parliament Adopts Amended Patent Law Bill

On 28 May 2009 the German federal parliament (Bundestag) adopted the government’s draft bill to simplify and modernise German ...

Actavis v Novartis: the Conor effect and technical obviousness

ECJ boost for borderline Products

Providing UK patent litigants with a real alternative

Taylor Wessing Review of Patent Cases in 2008

The first assessment of damages caused by an injunction on a patent later found to be invalid

Key considerations in choosing where to litigate a European patent

Community Patent and Single Court Suffer Familiar Setback

Protection for DNA-based claims in Europe

No ban on stem cell patents in Europe?

Interim Injunctions in the UK - Recent Pharma Cases in the Patents Court

UK Court clarifies law on selection patents under the Patents Act 1977

Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex [2008] EWHC (Ch) 2347

Monsanto Technology LLC v Cargill International SA

Can SPC's have a zero or negative term?

Monsanto Technology LLC v Cargill International SA