Case Law of the Swiss Federal Patent Court
According to a press release of 21 November 2019,
Synova SA has brought an action against Avonisys AG and its directors with the Swiss Federal Patent Court for infringing on the Swiss part of Synova’s Patent EP 1 833 636 B1 » by marketing its ‘Air-Jet’ technology.
Case No. O2017_002 | Decision of 8 May 2020 » | ‘Freiform-Schneidverfahren’
We have reported about the main hearing on this Blog here ».
Case No. 4A_222/2020 (Supreme Court) | Decision of 16 June 2020 on appeal against O2017_025 | Order of 10 March 2020
This case pops up once in a while.
Case No. 4A_613/2019 (Supreme Court) | Decision of 11 May 2020 on appeal against O2017_009 (FPC) | Decision of 7 November 2019
MundiPharma’s EP(CH) 2 425 821 B1 and EP(CH) 2 425 824 B1 had been revoked by the FPC with decision of 7 November 2019; O2017_009.
The hearing in case G1/19 took place today.
The decision of the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal will undoubtedly be of outstanding relevance for a whole (service) industry with respect to access to adequate patent protection at the EPO.
Apparently, the FPC had (or, maybe, still has) to deal with a blockchain patent infringement case. From the hot off the press IAM Patent 1000 guide that I have received earlier today (not yet available online) and this source,
Case No. 4A_420/2019 (Supreme Court) | Decision of 13 May 2020 on appeal against O2016_001 | Decision of 27 June 2019
We had reported about the decision of the FPC on this Blog here.
Case No. O2017_014 | Decision of 10 March 2020 | ‘Fulvestrant use’
When you have read the report about the main hearing of 20 January 2020 on this Blog here, you probably won’t be overly surprised by the outcome: AZ’s complaint has been dismissed.
Case No. O2019_008 | Decision of 17 December 2019, on remittal of 4A_70/2019 | Decision of 6 August 2019 | ‘Flow sensor II’
The flow sensor litigation between Hamilton Medical and imtmedical is popping up once in a while.
I guess most of us have implemented certain changes to business procedures, due to the Covid-19 crisis. There is certainly some truth in the following ‘multiple choice questionnaire’ which I have recently seen first on Twitter (@MBA_ish):
Challenging times demand for creative solutions.
Case No. O2017_015 | Decision of 7 November 2019 | ‘Rame ferroviaire modulaire’
The patent at stake in this infringement case is Alstom‘s EP 1 024 070 B1; see EPO Register and Swissreg for further bibliographic information.
The official Annual Report 2019 of the FPC has been published yesterday. It comes along with an Executive Summary as follows:
The number of incoming cases fell compared to the previous year to 21 (29 in the previous year).