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EIP and Osborne Clarke successful for PanOptis against Apple

The UK High Court has found a patent held by PanOptis and owned by its subsidiary Unwired Planet as valid and infringed by Apple. But no injunction has been ordered against the US tech company, as App ...

20 October 2020 by Amy Sandys
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Network technology

Next win for Orckit IP and Taliens

Tel Aviv-based patent holder Orckit IP has scored another victory on patent infringement at Düsseldorf Regional Court. The presiding judge found US co ...

19 October 2020 by Mathieu Klos
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The Netherlands

Freshfields and Novartis secure cross-border injunctions against Mylan

The District Court of The Hague has granted two pan-European injunctions against Mylan in preliminary relief proceedings. In doing so, the court found ...

15 October 2020 by Amy Sandys
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Standard essential patents

Conversant fails UK appeal proceedings against ZTE and Huawei

Non-practising entity Conversant has suffered a defeat at the UK Court of Appeal in the pan-European dispute over mobile phone technology. The court i ...

13 October 2020 by Konstanze Richter
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Wi-Fi 6: Key Innovations and their Contributors -Part 2-

(Continued from part 1) Key innovations of Wi-Fi 6 The key innovations for increasing efficiency and capacity – four times as high – are the orthogona…

26 August 2020 by Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling Patent- & Rechtsanwälte
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Artificial intelligence

UK High Court rejects idea of invention by AI system Dabus

The UK High Court has rejected an appeal on AI inventorship in the next stage of the ongoing debate around AI system Dabus. The judgment states an art ...

9 October 2020 by Amy Sandys
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Video coding technology

First win for Nokia and Bird & Bird against Lenovo

Lenovo may face a sales ban of laptops and tablets in Germany after the Regional Court Munich ordered an injunction against the company. The action is ...

8 October 2020 by Mathieu Klos
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Wi-Fi 6: Key Innovations and their Contributors -Part 1-

In 2019, Apple launched a series of mobile phones, including the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro Max, etc. which support Wi-Fi 6 technology. Samsung also lau…

26 August 2020 by Braun-Dullaeus Pannen Emmerling Patent- & Rechtsanwälte
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Heart valve technology

Powell Gilbert and Kirkland battle over five heart valve patents

The UK High Court has delivered its first judgment in a pan-European dispute regarding technology for heart valve patents. The judgment, part of the o ...

6 October 2020 by Konstanze Richter
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Werner & Mertz and Good Soaps battle over sustainable detergent patent

Who invented it? This is the question currently occupying the Swiss Federal Patent Court in the battle between Good Soaps and Werner & Mertz. The ...

1 October 2020 by Konstanze Richter
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Supplementary protection certificates

Federal Court of Justice destroys SPC for Gilead blockbuster drug Truvada

Gilead has now also failed to protect its HIV blockbuster drug Truvada in Germany, in the Europe-wide dispute over its property rights. The German Fed ...

23 September 2020 by Konstanze Richter
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Veterinary medicine

Hoyng ROKH Monegier and df-mp successful for Ceva in Bayer patent revocation

A Technical Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office has revoked a Bayer patent covering a veterinary medical preparation. The patent had previou ...

22 September 2020 by Amy Sandys
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Pharmaceuticals

EPO destroys Teva copaxone patent after appeal

The European Patent Office has destroyed a patent owned by Teva for copaxone, which treats certain indications of multiple sclerosis. The patent was o ...

21 September 2020 by Amy Sandys
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Pharmaceuticals

Eli Lilly's pemetrexed patent wins again in France

A French court has banned Fresenius from selling a competing pemetrexed product in France, in the pan-European dispute over Eli Lilly’s cancer drug. T ...

15 September 2020 by Christina Schulze
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FRAND

Sisvel expands UMTS standard campaign against Xiaomi

Sisvel has announced that it is suing Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi in Germany, after filing a lawsuit at the Regional Court Munich. This f ...

14 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos
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Connected cars

Setback for Daimler in connected cars dispute against Avanci pool members

The Regional Court Munich has found that automotive company Daimler infringed one of Sharp's LTE patents, and was an unwilling licensee. The ruling co ...

11 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos
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Lamination technology

Boehmert and Gramm Lins win in Berlin over ID technology patent

ID cards and passport producer Bundesdruckerei may continue to produce ID documents using embossed plates from manufacturer VTT. The Berlin Regional C ...

8 September 2020 by Konstanze Richter
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Connected cars lawsuits: referral to CJEU increasingly likely

Düsseldorf Regional Court is considering submitting certain issues in the current connected cars cases to the Court of Justice of the European Union ( ...

4 September 2020 by Mathieu Klos
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