Case Law of the Swiss Federal Patent Court
As discussed a while ago on this Blog here, the settlement discussion at the occasion of a main hearing is non-public at the FPC.
Case No. O2017_015 | Hearing of 20 September 2019
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.
Case No. S2019_002 | Decision of 15 August 2019 | ‘PASCAL’
This infringement case is about EP 1 624 810 B1 and EP 1 408 850 B1; see EPO Register (here and here) and Swissreg (here and here) for further bibliographic information.
Case No. 4A_70/2019 (Supreme Court) | Decision of 6 August 2019, on appeal against O2016_009 (FPC) | Decision of 18 December 2018 | ‘Durchflussmessfühler’
I have reported about the first instance decision of the FPC on this Blog here.
Case No. O2019_005
I came across the complaint in an infringement case that is pending at the FPC, between Sanipat GmbH and Hafner AG.
Case No. O2016_010 | Decision of 15 May 2019 | ‘Klarheitsprüfung bei Änderung der Patentansprüche’
Case No. O2016_011 | Decision of 15 May 2019 | ‘Klarheitsprüfung bei Änderung der Patentansprüche’
Loepfe had sued Uster Technologies AG for nullity of EP 2 347 250 (see EPO Register and Swissreg) and a divisional thereof, i.e.
Case No. O2016_001 | Decision of 27 June 2019
We had reported about the main hearing in this matter on this Blog here.
Case No. S2019_003 | Decision of 6 February 2019
Case No. S2019_003 | Decision of 11 July 2019
These two decisions in summary proceedings are heavily redacted — which is an exception to the rule.
Case No. O2016_017 | Decision of 21 June 2019
The patent at stake is, again, MundiPharma‘s EP 2 425 825 B9; see EPO Register and Swissreg.
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The annual INGRES event of 2 July 2019 (‘Praxis des Immaterialgüterrechts’) has been very interesting and enjoyable, as always. I am not intending to anticipate the full report about the event that will be prepared by Estelle SEILER for publication in sic!, but there was one specific discussion following-up on Susanna RUDER‘s presentation that I am still digesting.
Case No. O2017_015 | Hearing of 1 July 2019 (canceled)
First things first: The hearing scheduled for today did not take place.