The “unwilling licensee” issue has been a vexed one, with uncertainty as to whether such a concept exists, its relevance, and what an implementer must do to avoid becoming one. As for the concept of FRAND itself, there is no...more
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that trade mark owners should pay the costs of implementing a court order requiring UK ISPs to block access to websites selling counterfeit goods. This is a reversal of previous...more
Further changes to the EU Trade Mark (“EUTM”) system come into effect on 1 October 2017. These are the next step in the EU’s trade mark reforms, which are aimed at modernising the system to make it technologically up-to-date...more
In this paper we consider how a new generation of virtual reality headsets promises to fundamentally change consumer experiences of virtual environments, and we raise some of the major legal and regulatory challenges that...more
The vexed question of how to enforce second medical use patents has dominated the headlines in the last half year. The case of Warner-Lambert v Actavis1 in the English High Court highlighted the serious difficulties...more
9/23/2015
/ Actavis Inc. ,
AstraZeneca ,
Claim Construction ,
EU ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
FRAND ,
Gilead Sciences ,
Hospira ,
Injunctions ,
IP License ,
IP Portfolio ,
Jurisdiction ,
Life Sciences ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Portfolios ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Teva Pharmaceuticals ,
UK ,
UK Patents Act
The High Court has quashed the Personal Copies for Private Use Regulations (the Regulations)2 which amended the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the Act) to introduce section 28B, with prospective effect. This follows...more
7/24/2015
/ Advance Pricing Agreements ,
Cloud Computing ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Designs and Patents Act ,
Copyright Infringement ,
Copyright Litigation ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Mobile Devices ,
Motions to Quash ,
Music ,
Music Industry ,
Regulation ,
Sound Recording Copyrights ,
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) today handed down its much-awaited decision in the Huawei v. ZTE dispute, in which it was asked to clarify whether and when standard essential patent (SEP) owners may seek and...more