Category: European Union
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Global pharma company Adalvo eying U.S. expansion, says Chief IP Officer
While the B2B pharma company has expanded its European business significantly in the last decade, it is now turning to the U.S. to bring its licensing business, Adalvoās Toni Santamaria told ip fray at IP Dealmakers earlier this month.
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Podcast: interview with Dr. Peter Georg Picht, SEP and competition law expert
In our latest podcast episode, ip fray interviewed Dr. Peter Georg Picht, an IP and competition law professor at Zurich University, and a fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.
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IP is the ābasis of Europeās competitivenessā ā it would be āunrealisticā to think otherwise, says IP Europeās new Secretary General Niklas Lagergren
āOur ideas and our intellectual property are basically the only possible basis we have for our future competitiveness,ā Mr. Lagergren, who boasts 30 years in IP policy experience in Brussels, told ip fray in an exclusive interview.
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Helsinki LD solves part of less-frequented UPC venuesā chicken-and-egg problem
The Helsinki LD adopts the Hague LDās equivalence standard based on an approach that offers greater predictability for litigants considering smaller UPC venues. AIM lost again.
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Belgian SME keeps Dutch at UPC Brussels LD as CFI president rejects Esko’s bid to switch case to English
The President of the UPC Court of First Instance has refused Esko Software’s push for English, keeping a Brussels patent fight in Dutch.
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UPC Milan LD stays Spanish long-arm infringement claim pending national revocation: a first
The UPC’s Milan LD confirmed long-arm jurisdiction over Spanish distributor Motocard, but stayed the infringement claim for Spain pending a national revocation action, the first such stay by the UPC.
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BREAKING: China issues regulations countering foreign extraterritorial jurisdiction
The global ZTE v. Samsung FRAND rate-setting decision is potentially a targeted scenario.
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UPC docket distribution is āharmfulā and āunderminingā or a ānon-concernā? European patent attorneys strongly divided
A letter by the European Patent Lawyers Association reveals that most non-German European patent attorneys believe that the current state of the Unified Patent Courtās (UPC’s) case distribution (currently very German-heavy) is a huge concern and implore the UPC to change its system. Germans, on the other hand, are strongly against intervention.