News & Insights (Patent Litigation)

Advocate General recommends that the ECJ dismiss AstraZeneca's appeal against Losec antitrust decision

Last year, we reported on AstraZeneca's decision to appeal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against a finding by the ...

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 ...

Cross border injunctions possible in patent cases says Advocate General

Cross border injunctions possible in patent cases says Advocate General C 616/10 Solvay SA v Honeywell Fluorine Products ...

InFocus: Life Sciences & Healthcare e-newsletter - April 2012

Welcome to the January issue of InFocus, our life sciences and healthcare e-newsletter. In this issue we look at: ...

Quetiapine patent, for sustained release formulations, invalid in the UK

Mr. Justice Arnold handed down judgment of the UK High Court today declaring patent EP (UK) 0 907 364 invalid for obviousness. ...

InFocus: Life Sciences & Healthcare e-newsletter - January 2012

Welcome to the January issue of InFocus, our life sciences and healthcare e-newsletter. In this issue we look at: ...

SPCs for combination products: Clarification from the ECJ today?

In the October issue of our life sciences and healthcare eBulletin, InFocus, we set out the background and discussed Advocate ...

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

Welcome to the October issue of InFocus, our life sciences and healthcare e-newsletter. In this issue we look ...

CJEU Judgment in Synthon v Merz (Case C-195/09)

Today the CJEU gave judgment in the Synthon v Merz preliminary reference (C-195/09). This was a reference from the UK High Court ...

Advocate General's Opinion in SPC referral - infringement test rejected

As previously reported in our e-newsletters, InFocus - January 2011 and InFocus - October 2010, there have been a number of ...

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 ...

Negative and zero term SPCs OK says Advocate General

Merck & Co Inc v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (Case C-125/10) In his opinion on 9 June 2011, Advocate General Yves Bot ...

Informal consultation on the UK bolar and research exemptions

In its Plan for Growth published in March, the UK Government committed to ensure that the intellectual property system in the UK ...

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 ...

Green light for the Community Patent

Earlier this week, we reported on the CJEU's decision that a unified patents court, in the form proposed, would not be compatible ...

European and Community Patents Court is not compatible with European Treaties

Back to the drawing board In February, we reported on progress made at the European level in developing a unified European ...

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 - ...

More heartburn for the pharma sector

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

Virgin Atlantic Airways loses its business lie flat bed case against Delta Airways

Yesterday, Mr. Justice Arnold handed down his judgment in Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd v Delta Airways Inc on a summary judgment ...

"Dangerous" Intellectual Property Myths

Most people these days have heard of intellectual property (or at least copyright).  Whilst the general public's awareness ...

Faster, cheaper IP litigation?

From 1 October 2010, a new procedure becomes available in the English Patents County Court (‘PCC’). It is intended to permit more ...

InFocus - Life Sciences & Healthcare e-newsletter - January 2010

Life Sciences & Healthcare Update - December 2009

EU moves closer to Biosimilar antibodies

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 ...

Patents Update - November 2009

This update aims to provide an overview of some key developments of November 2009.  Most notably, there have been ...

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

Taylor Wessing launches its second Global Intellectual Property Index

With the value of many tangible assets, in particular real estate, falling in the current economic climate, there's a growing ...

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