Case Law of the Swiss Federal Patent Court
The Control Committees (CC; ‘Geschäftsprüfungskommissionen’, GPK in German) of both the Council of States and the National Council recommend that the Federal Courts improve transparency about the formation of the panels that are handling the individual cases; see the press release of 24 June 2021 and the report of the CC and the underlying report of the Parliamentary Control of the Administration below. → Read more ...
Case No. O2019_012 | Hearing of 1 July 2021
The patent at stake is EP 3 027 362 B1 which is jointly owned by C&E Fein GmbH and Robert Bosch GmbH; see the EPO Register and Swissreg for further information. → Read more ...
Case No. O2019_005 | Decision of 3 May 2021 | ‘Schnittschutzstreifen’
As reported earlier on this Blog here and here, Sanipat GmbH and Hafner AG have been litigating over certain sealing strips for e.g. → Read more ...
Case No. O2020_001 | Hearing of 4 June 2021
As mentioned earlier on this Blog here, Becton, Dickinson and Company has sued Ypsomed AG for infringement of EP 2 825 227 B1; see EPO Register and Swissreg for further bibliographic information. → Read more ...
Case No. O2020_004 | Order of 3 March 2021
We recently reported about this order already on this Blog here. The order is heavily anonymized, and close to nothing is mentioned about the technical subject matter of the patent in suit. → Read more ...
I recently came across the monograph ‘The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Under International Investment Law‘, authored by Simon Klopschinski, Christopher Gibson and Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan. → Read more ...
Case No. O2020_004 | Order of 3 March 2021 | ‘Security for party compensation’
The defendant in this infringement case had requested that the plaintiff be ordered to provide a security for its party compensation in case of failure of plaintiff’s complaint. → Read more ...
As noted earlier on this Blog here, we knew that a medical device company has been sued by two competitors for infringement of their respective patent(s) by one and the same injector pen. → Read more ...
Case No. O2019_011 | Hearing of 18 February, cont’d on 19 April 2021
Anergy plus seeks the transfer of six patent applications relating to urban heat exchange networks. → Read more ...
Case No. O2018_004 | Decision of 14 December 2021
There is so much to write about this judgment that I hardly know where to begin. → Read more ...
As mentioned earlier on this Blog here, the following question has been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA), with interlocutory decision T 1807/15 of 12 March 2021:
→ Read more ...Is the conduct of oral proceedings in the form of a videoconference compatible with the right to oral proceedings as enshrined in Article 116(1) EPC if not all of the parties to the proceedings have given their consent to the conduct of oral proceedings in the form of a videoconference?
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office will soon hear a case of fundamental importance for the parties’ right to be heard and the right to a fair trial. → Read more ...