On 30 July, the Court of Appeal of The Hague ruled on the formal entitlement to priority following from a US provisional patent application. The attack on priority in this case is part of a recent trend by parties in patent...more
8/16/2019
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Entitlements ,
EU ,
European Patent Convention ,
Genentech ,
Hoffman LaRoche ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inventions ,
Joint Ownership ,
Life Sciences ,
Netherlands ,
Paris Convention ,
Patent Cooperation Treaty ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Ownership ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Priority Patent Claims ,
The Hague
On 3 November 2017, the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) handed down a landmark decision on the infringement of second medical use patents in the Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. (“MSD”) v. Teva Pharma B.V. and Pharmachemie B.V....more
11/13/2017
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Generic Drugs ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Merck ,
Netherlands ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Swiss Style Claims ,
Teva Pharmaceuticals