Case Law of the Swiss Federal Patent Court
Case No. O2018_003 | Decision of 15 October 2019 | “Patentnichtigkeit; Pemetrexed”
The patent in suit is Lilly‘s EP 1 313 508 B1; see the EPO Register and Swissreg for further details.
Plausibility is a big deal nowadays in almost every high stake patent case:
Does the application as filed in view of the common general knowledge at the filing date make it plausible that the invention really works?
Case No. S2019_007 | Decision of 1 October 2019
The patent in suit is CH/EP 1 173 181 H1, after partial surrender of EP 1 173 181 B3 which itself came out of central limitation proceedings concerning EP 1 173 181 B1 before the EPO; see EPO Register and Swissreg for further information.
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.