Brazil has kept up its efforts to improve the protection and enforcement of IPR over the reporting period. The Brazilian IPR Office (INPI) continues reducing the patent and trade mark backlogs. INPI
The dental equipment industry is seeing increasingly fierce patent disputes. Several manufacturers are facing off in court. Now, the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf has dismissed a lawsuit filed
Context: 10x Genomics was an “early adopter” of the United Patent Court (UPC) with its patent enforcement against NanoString. That dispute has meanwhile been settled on terms presumably favorable to
Chinese video surveillance giant Hikvision has been hit with a 10.31 million yuan patent infringement lawsuit by competitor Hongmen Group, a national high-tech enterprise specializing in intelligent
Transmissions also lost a three-patent trial against Nokia (November 6, 2024 ip fray article). What’s new: Yesterday, Nokia did it again and defended itself successfully in the third E.D. Tex. trial in a
Generics of prostate cancer drug enzalutamide remain banned from entering the UK market. The Court of Appeal in London has upheld a key patent and SPC, confirming a previous ruling by the UK High
the grant of a Knauf Insulation patent for a plant growth medium, which Rockwool aims to prevent. Must the description of a European patent align with amended patent claims? The EPO’s Enlarged Board of
BioNTech yesterday announced its intention to acquire CureVac. The transaction could also end the global patent disputes between the two biotech companies in Germany, the UK, and the US. In a press
parte reexamination of the patents, but the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) simply upheld their validity. This, Voxer alleges in its complaint against Amazon, confirms they cover
components for the printing plates. As the patents are also valid in the UK, the Japanese patent holder FujiFilm requested the court order the German subsidiaries of the US competitor to refrain from making