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The Federal Circuit has reversed a grant of summary judgment for induced infringement against a defendant who provided the active pharmaceutical ingredient to an ANDA defendant seeking to bring a generic onto the market

In a recent decision of the Commercial Court of Brussels, the court ordered Lidl Belgium to cease all use of the sign SOL!D in Belgium because it infringes the !SOLID trade marks registered in the name of CNS Group (Commercial Court of Brussels July 28 2015 – CNS Group SA v Lidl Belgium GmbH & Co KG).

The pricing of medicinal products has always been a hot issue in Greece, even more in recent years, when the government is under pressure to drastically reduce the spending on health care.

In the court decision X ZR 110/13, the Federal Supreme Court discussed the technical character of the graphical presentation of information. The patent in suit related to a device with a touch-sensitive display that could be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. As a result of user input, sensory feedback is provided by the device. In its decision, the Federal Supreme Court confirmed the revocation of the patent at first instance by the Federal Patent Court in respect of obviousness.

In a recent decision, the Supreme Court in Indian Performing Rights Society Limited (IPRS) v Sanjay Dalia & Ors resolved the issue arising out of the interpretation of Section 62 of the Copyright Act, 1957 (CA) and Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (TMA) in a suit for infringement and its interplay with the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.

On July 6 2015, the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) adopted a new Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (the Arusha Protocol) at a diplomatic conference that was held in Arusha, the United Republic of Tanzania.

Depending on your patent strategy, you might have decided to protect your invention by first filing a priority founding national patent application. The aim of this strategy might be to get a quick grant in the desired jurisdiction. The national application can then be followed by a European patent application designating the state in which the national application was filed and claiming the priority or having the same effective date as the national patent application. If both the European and the national patents are granted, you might wonder whether your invention can be simultaneously protected by both the national and the European patent in the state in which the national application was filed.

A Chinese-language trade mark is essential for the introduction of a branded product or service to the Chinese market.

On August 29 2015, the Standing Committee of National People's Congress passed certain amendments to the Law on Promoting the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements. With the change, the Law now provides a general framework for the exploitation of scientific and technological achievements, and for the remuneration of inventors and those who made great contributions to the achievements.

Back in 2012, we reported that the EPO procedure up to grant had been amended, with the amendment of Rule 71(3) EPC and the introduction of new Rule 71a EPC.