Background In this case, the claimant started infringement proceedings against the defendants in respect of four registered UK trade marks at the UK’s Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”). In reaching her decision, the IPEC judge (Her Honour Judge Melissa...
Background The decision (UPC CFI 355/2023) of the UPC’s Düsseldorf Local Division relates to European patent EP 3594009, owned by Fujifilm. The patent was validated and remained in force in both Germany and the United Kingdom. Fujifilm initiated an infringement action...
Laos will join the five existing validation states (Morocco, Republic of Moldova, Tunisia, Cambodia, and Georgia) and the one extension state (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in which patent rights can be obtained based on a granted European patent. This means that, from...
Background of Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) SPCs are heavily relied on by pharmaceutical companies to extend the period of patent protection. Under the current regulations, SPCs can only be granted if the product is: 1) protected by a basic patent in...
The original AI image was modified by Kent Keirsey, CEO of Invoke AI and also the owner of the copyright registration in question. The image was modified using a technique called inpainting. The application to register “A Single Piece of American Cheese” was initially...
Article 84 EPC seems clear in stating that “the claims shall define the matter for which protection is sought”. More recently, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) on the face of it appears to concur. UPC Court of Appeal decision 335/2023 states “The Patent Claim is not...
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