United Kingdom

Signs of life: UPC constitutional complaint

The Federal Constitutional Court has published its list of decisions for 2019. Once again, it contains the constitutional complaint against the UPC la ...

26 February 2019 by JUVE

Pharmaceuticals

Battle of the originators at the EPO

Regeneron and Sanofi have won two of three Opposition Division proceedings at the EPO against biopharmaceutical company Amgen. In 2017, the US multina ...

25 February 2019 by JUVE

Breathing masks

Resmed and Fisher & Paykel settle global patent disputes

Two medical device manufacturers, Resmed and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, have settled all patent infringement disputes worldwide. The settlement, whic ...

22 February 2019 by JUVE

Trade secret protection

Psst, top secret!

The new Trade Secrets Directive already applies almost everywhere in the EU. But it is Germany of all countries which is struggling to incorporate the ...

21 February 2019 by JUVE

CRISPR/Cas

EPO overturns Broad Institute gene editing patent

It's not going well for the Broad Institute when it comes to CRISPR Cas technology. Last week, the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office r ...

20 February 2019 by JUVE

Germany

Quinn Emanuel turnover rises by more than 50%

The four German offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan generated over €29 million last year. This was announced today by Marcus Grosch, managing ...

19 February 2019 by JUVE

London

Bristows boosts life sciences practice

The London office of Bristows has gained a new addition to its life sciences practice. Alex Denoon (49) joins the firm as partner and will lead its Li ...

15 February 2019 by JUVE

Textile patents

Further victory for Dainese in airbags dispute

In a Europe-wide dispute over airbags in protective motorcycle clothing, Italian manufacturer Dainese has achieved a partial success against competito ...

13 February 2019 by JUVE

Breast cancer drug

High Court upholds Novartis infringement application

Global healthcare company Novartis has won a High Court judgment against Dr Reddy’s Laboratories over a treatment for breast cancer. An interim injunc ...

28 January 2019 by JUVE

UK Patent Courts

Lost generation: judges and the Patent Courts

Reluctance by QCs to progress into senior judicial positions is impacting the UK’s patent litigation sector. While the ranks of patent litigation lawy ...

24 January 2019 by JUVE

Settlement

Boston Scientific and Edwards Lifesciences settle heart valve dispute

Medical device manufacturers Boston Scientific and Edwards Lifesciences have reached an agreement to settle all global outstanding patent disputes. Si ...

18 January 2019 by JUVE

Unified Patent Court

Troubled waters: Brexit and the UPC

Rejection of Theresa May’s Brexit deal by the UK parliament means the Unified Patent Court will not get off to an orderly start. Although a ‘No Deal’ ...

17 January 2019 by JUVE

Europe

Top 10 patent cases of the year

From the UK’s Supreme Court FRAND decision, to the first case over connected cars in Germany, and patents for pioneering scientific breakthroughs – th ...

21 December 2018 by JUVE

Mobile communications

Qualcomm hits Apple hard

Qualcomm against Apple remains one of the biggest ongoing patent disputes worldwide. Yesterday the Munich patent court published an important judgemen ...

20 December 2018 by JUVE

Interview

"Clients won't litigate in every jurisdiction"

Previously Allen & Overy’s top litigator, Nicola Dagg joined Kirkland & Ellis just six weeks ago. Dagg’s appointment is a new direction for the US fir ...

13 December 2018 by JUVE