Apple ordered to run adverts stating Samsung did not copy iPad – The Guardian

Posted July 19th, 2012 in advertising, news, patents by tracey

“Apple has been ordered to take out advertisements in major newspapers – including the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Financial Times – pointing to a UK high court ruling that says Samsung did not copy its iPad, the Bloomberg news agency is reporting. It said the order came from Judge Colin Birss in a ruling on 18 July following his 9 July ruling in which he said that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s patents because the American company’s device was ‘cool’ but Samsung’s “are not as cool” even while they were “very, very similar” viewed from the front.”

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The Guardian, 19th July 2012

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HTC victory over Apple in latest round of patent battle – The Guardian

Posted July 5th, 2012 in news, patents, telecommunications by sally

“Apple lost a key patent battle against smartphone rival HTC in the high court in London today, meaning that the Silicon Valley company cannot ban certain of the Taiwanese firm’s products in Britain.”

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The Guardian, 4th July 2012

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Unified Patent Court split between Paris, London and Munich – The Guardian

Posted July 4th, 2012 in courts, EC law, news, patent attorneys, patents by sally

“After years of wrangling, European Council announces where EU-wide patent applications will be heard.”

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The Guardian, 3rd July 2012

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London could be given ‘specialist’ infringement and validity cases under proposed unitary patent court system – OUT-LAW.com

Posted June 28th, 2012 in courts, EC law, news, patents by sally

“EU leaders could agree to divide responsibilities for providing main judicial oversight of a new unitary patent system between courts in the UK, France and Germany.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 28th June 2012

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Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys v Registrar of Trade Marks – WLR Daily

Posted June 22nd, 2012 in EC law, law reports, patents by tracey

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys v Registrar of Trade Marks: Case C-307/10; [2012] WLR (D) 180

“It was a requirement of Parliament and Council Directive 2008/95/EC on trade marks that the goods and services for which the protection of the trade mark was sought should be identified by the applicant with sufficient clarity and precision to enable the competent authorities and economic operators, on that basis alone, to determine the extent of the protection conferred by the trade mark.”

WLR Daily, 19th June 2012

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IPO seeks new patent revocation powers as means for helping small businesses – OUT-LAW.com

Posted June 14th, 2012 in consultations, news, patents, small businesses by sally

“The circumstances in which the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) can initiate proceedings to revoke a patent on the strength of a non-binding opinion it was asked to submit on the patentability of an invention should be expanded, it has said.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 14th June 2012

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Cookie law disaster should force companies to emulate patent world lobbying, says expert – OUT-LAW.com

Posted June 13th, 2012 in consent, data protection, EC law, enforcement, internet, news, patents, privacy by sally

“UK authorities are beginning tentatively to enforce the cookies law and, after the compliance panic of the past month, companies can now sit back and examine where the fault lies for the development of such a poor, troublesome law.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 13th June 2012

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Pharmaceutical firm wins battle for compensation following the lifting of injunction – OUT-LAW.com

Posted May 10th, 2012 in compensation, medicines, news, patents by sally

“A pharmaceutical company has won its battle for compensation despite the fact that it was seeking to sell medicine in the UK that was manufactured in breach of Canadian patent law.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 10th May 2012

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Les Laboratoires Servier and another v Apotex Inc and others – WLR Daily

Posted May 9th, 2012 in damages, ex turpi causa, injunctions, law reports, patents by sally

Les Laboratoires Servier and another v Apotex Inc and others [2012] EWCA Civ 593; [2012] WLR (D) 138

“The court was able to take into account a wide range of considerations in order to ensure that the ex turpi causa defence only applied where it was a just and proportionate response to the illegality in question. Although a party claiming compensation on a cross-undertaking in damages for lost sales of products the manufacture of which infringed a foreign patent was relying on an unlawful act sufficiently causative of its claim to engage the defence in principle, the defence did not apply where the party had believed reasonably and in good faith that the patent was invalid, and the illegality was recognised by making a deduction in the assessment of damages for the amount which the foreign court would have awarded in patent infringement proceedings.”

WLR Daily, 3rd May 2012

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DKH Retail Ltd v Republic (Retail) Ltd – WLR Daily

DKH Retail Ltd v Republic (Retail) Ltd [2012] EWHC 877 (Ch); [2012] WLR (D) 109

“The current practice, in which applications to transfer cases to and from the Patents County Court were handled by judges of the court from which the case was to be transferred, was correct and in accordance with the Civil Procedure Rules.”

WLR Daily, 3rd April 2012

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Innovia Films Ltd v Frito-Lay North America Inc – WLR Daily

Posted April 5th, 2012 in jurisdiction, law reports, patents by sally

Innovia Films Ltd v Frito-Lay North America Inc [2012] EWHC 790 (Pat); [2012] WLR (D) 107

“Where a court had jurisdiction under section 82(4)(b) of the Patents Act 1977 to determine a question to which section 82 applied, the court’s jurisdiction was exclusive of all other possible jurisdictions.”

WLR Daily, 30th March 2012

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Gedeon Richter plc v Bayer Schering Pharma AG – WLR Daily

Posted March 12th, 2012 in law reports, medicines, patents by sally

Gedeon Richter plc v Bayer Schering Pharma AG [2012] EWCA Civ 235; [2012] WLR (D) 66

“On an application for the revocation of a registered patent on the ground of obviousness it was sufficient for the judge hearing the case to take an objective view whether a skilled formulator would take the trouble to obtain copies of papers published by inventors or review their contents to ascertain whether the patent in question related to an invention which was novel. The judge was not obliged to consider what view a notional team that included a medicinal chemist, pharmacologists and biochemists would take as to the issue of obviousness or whether something would have been ‘obvious to try’.”

WLR Daily, 7th March 2012

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Image processing software not excluded from patentability, IPO rules – OUT-LAW.com

Posted January 6th, 2012 in computer programs, news, patents by tracey

“A computerised method of processing images and categorising features within it into database-searchable words is not excluded from patentability, a hearing officer at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has ruled.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 5th January 2011

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Government will propose patent law changes to avoid infringements during pharma testing – OUT-LAW.com

Posted December 5th, 2011 in medicines, news, patents by sally

“The Government is likely to change patent laws because some pharmaceutical companies are at risk of breaking patent law when carrying out clinical testing, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has said.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 5th December 2011

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London backed by UK lawyers as home of new European patents court – The Guardian

Posted November 29th, 2011 in courts, news, patent attorneys, patents by sally

“Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys urges David Cameron to bid for court to be based in UK rather than Germany.”

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The Guardian, 28th November 2011

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Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd and another (No 3) – WLR Daily

Posted November 24th, 2011 in appeals, costs, law reports, licensing, patents, time limits by sally

Schütz (UK) Ltd v Werit UK Ltd and another (No 3) [2011] EWCA Civ 1337; [2011] WLR (D) 338

“The ‘transaction’ which an exclusive licensee of a patent was required by section 68 of the Patents Act 1977 to have registered within six months if the court was to award him costs in proceedings for infringement of that patent was the first transaction that had made him an exclusive licensee.”

WLR Daily, 22nd November 2011

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Fresenius Kabi Deutchland GmbH and others v Carefusion 303, Inc and related action – WLR Daily

Posted November 10th, 2011 in appeals, costs, law reports, patents by sally

Fresenius Kabi Deutchland GmbH and others v Carefusion 303, Inc and related action [2011] EWCA Civ 1288; [2011] WLR (D) 320

“The practice in the Patents Court whereby a patentee could discontinue his claim for infringement and consent to the revocation of his patent on terms that he paid the costs of the action up to the date of service of the original defence, with the alleged infringer paying the costs of the action thereafter to the date of discontinuance, was no longer to be followed. It was to be replaced by the general rule in CPR r 38.6 that, unless the court otherwise ordered, a claimant who discontinued was liable to pay the defendant’s costs.”

WLR Daily, 8th November 2011

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Eli Lilly & Co v Human Genome Sciences Inc – WLR Daily

Posted November 4th, 2011 in law reports, patents by tracey

Eli Lilly & Co v Human Genome Sciences Inc [2011] UKSC 51;  [2011] WLR (D)  312

“Since the Technical Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office had adopted a consistent approach to patents for biological material, the English courts should follow the principles of law set out in its decisions. Accordingly, in deciding whether a patent disclosing a new protein and its encoding gene was susceptible to industrial application the question was whether, taking the common general knowledge into account, it had been plausibly shown that it was usable.”

WLR Daily, 2nd November 2011

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Brüstle v Greenpeace eV – WLR Daily

Posted October 31st, 2011 in embryology, human tissue, law reports, patents by sally

Brüstle v Greenpeace eV (Case C-34/10); [2011] WLR (D) 305

“Any human ovum after fertilisation, any non-fertilised human ovum into which the cell nucleus from a mature human cell had been transplanted, and any non-fertilised human ovum whose division and further development had been stimulated by parthenogenesis constituted a ‘human embryo’ within the meaning of article 6(2)(c) of Parliament and Council Directive 98/44/EC of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions (OJ 1998 L 213, p 13) and could not therefore be patented.”

WLR Daily, 18th October 2011

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Nokia Oyj (Nokia Corpn) v IPCom GmbH & Co KG – WLR Daily

Posted October 28th, 2011 in law reports, patents by tracey

Nokia Oyj (Nokia Corpn) v IPCom GmbH & Co KG: [2011] EWHC 2719 (Pat);  [2011] WLR (D)  303

“Section 63(2) of the Patents Act 1977 was not intended to act as a sanction against careless drafting or lack of good faith when those matters had no bearing on the damages or other remedy sought by the patentee.”

WLR Daily, 26th October 2011

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