European Union: Intellectual Property

À compter du 1er octobre 2025, les avocats pourront rejoindre des groupements de mandataires enregistrés auprès de l'Office européen des brevets (OEB).

Life sciences-related cases started at a low level during the first years of the UPC's existence (about 25% of cases) and focused initially on the medtech sector.

The application for a default decision merely supplements, but does not replace, the main application for a PI and other provisional measures...

On 9 February 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") answered a preliminary question referred to it by the High Court of Justice of England and Wales (the "Referring Court") in Novartis AG ("Novartis") v. Actavis UK Ltd.

A recently published decision of the European Patent Office’s (EPO) Board of Appeal about European patents and clinical trials provides for interesting reading and for some important pointers about how to deal with clinical trials for medicinal products but also for medical devices as to not destroy novelty of a patentable invention with invalidity as result.

The patent of Oliver Brüstle that is at stake relates to purified neural precursor cells and to processes for their production from embryonic stem cells.

Le greenwashing n'épargne pas le droit des marques ! Logos, slogans et allégations "vertes" sont désormais scrutés à la loupe par les juridictions nationales et internationales.

L'expansion hors de vos frontières offre de belles opportunités, mais comporte aussi des risques une simple omission dans une recherche d'antériorité ou une date d'opposition manquée...

Now, for some avid fans of the great sport of tennis, like myself, the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) debate, can never be settled in reality.

Over the last couple of years, it has become clear that Trademark and Copyright owners have a tense relationship with the Internet Service Providers.

Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), there can be a relatively fine line between the permissible use of an acronym as a domain name and the impermissible use of a trademark.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organisation in charge of assigning and coordinating Internet identifiers, has opened a first application round for the registration of new generic top level domains ("New gTLDs") on 12 January 2012.