Several initiatives and efforts have recently been introduced to spur production of needed products and encourage innovation to combat COVID-19 by either requesting or requiring a patent holder to refrain from asserting its...more
On Friday, March 20, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled that the nation’s ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement is void because the German parliament (Bundestag) did not follow the...more
On April 26, 2018, which was designated World Intellectual Property Day, the United Kingdom ratified the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement. The UPC is a single patent court that will have jurisdiction in all European Union...more
The Federal Circuit and Congress have in recent years made it more difficult for plaintiffs to recover enhanced damages in patent infringement suits. This may have caused companies to erroneously assume that seeking an...more