Case Law of the Swiss Federal Patent Court
Case No. S2018_007 | Hearing of 15 April 2019
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.
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Case No. 4A_575/2018 (Supreme Court) | Decision of 12 March 2019 on appeal against S2018_004 (FPC) | Decision of 22 October 2018 | ‘Abacavir / Lamivudine’
Please see this Blog here for a detailed review of the first instance decision S2018_004 of the FPC in this matter, granting interim injunctive relief against Sandoz’s generic Kivexa®.
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Case No. S2019_001 | Decision of 25 March 2019
The parties Lutz Medical Engineering and the EPFL are in dispute about the legitimate ownership of WO 2017/005661 A1 and the further national / regional parts of the patent family in Germany, the U.S., China and the EPO.
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Case No. O2017_023 | Hearing of 4 April 2019
This case is about an alleged infringement of Gilead’s SPC C00915894; the basic patent is (see EPO Register and Swissreg).
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In addition to the cases concerning double patenting, computer-implemented simulation and the location in Haar, there is yet another referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) in the pipeline, i.e.
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As reported earlier on this Blog here, the Enlarged Board of Appeal will have to decide whether or not the Boards of Appeal may properly summon parties to oral proceedings at their new premises in Haar.
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An interesting initiative has been lodged in the Swiss parliament on 21 March 2019 by Thomas HEFTI, member of the Council of States; see here.
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Case Nos. O2016_010, O2016_011 | Hearing of 20 March 2019
I have attended the main hearings in both these nullity cases, i.e.
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Case Nos. 4A_435/2018, 4A_441/2018 (Supreme Court) | Decision of 29 January 2019 on appeal against O2015_018 (FPC) | Decision of 15 June 2018 | ‘Instrument d’écriture’
Please see this Blog here for a detailed review of the underlying decision of the FPC in this matter.
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The official Annual Report 2018 of the FPC has been published earlier today, together with a press release. It comes along with an official Executive Summary as follows:
→ Read more ...Compared to the previous year, the total number of incoming cases decreased slightly to 29 (34 in the previous year).