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
ToolGen’s EP 4 357 457 patent covering CRISPR-Cas9 RNP technology. EP 457 is a divisional patent of EP 4 397 759. Vertex, for whom Lonza manufactures the drug, had apparently anticipated this move.
amend their case and refile the claims, which the company then did. Battleground Munich Days before the Californian court published its decision, SAP launched a patent infringement action at the UPC
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
Sweden (case ID: UPC_CFI_363/2023). However, regarding EP 320, the Düsseldorf panel under presiding judge Ronny Thomas invalidated the patent and dismissed the infringement claim (case ID: UPC_CFI_483
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