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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court | August 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court | July 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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France Has Entered the Chat: Sun Patent Trust Asks French Court to Determine Global FRAND Rate for LTE-Advanced SEPs

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Last week, Sun Patent Trust sued Xiaomi in France for infringement of patents claimed to be essential to the LTE-Advanced standard. In its suit, Sun Patent Trust asked French courts to set a global FRAND rate—something that...more

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Legal Lens on the Unified Patent Court - March 2024

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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is revolutionizing the way patents are enforced in Europe, and McDermott’s intellectual property team is here to help you navigate this dynamic landscape. Our Legal Lens on the Unified Patent...more

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Unified Patent Court Publishes Its First Case Load Statistics

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The UPC, a single patent court for European Union Member States, has published the first statistics on its case load since its establishment in 2023. Between June 1, 2023, and January 31, 2024, a total of 196 cases were filed...more

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UPC Paris Central Division to decide on treatment of whether affiliates are the “same party” as their parent

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For the first time, on Thursday 26 October, an oral hearing took place at the Paris Central Division. It pertained to a preliminary objection lodged in a revocation action brought by Meril Group against a patent owned by...more

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Intellectual Property & Health | News To Know – June 2022

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RUSSIA RESPONDS TO WESTERN SANCTIONS WITH PATENT RETALIATION - On March 6, 2022, the Russian government retaliated against the West’s imposition of sanctions by issuing a decree permitting patented innovations to be used...more

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Intellectual Property & Health: Need to Know - France & Europe - February 2022

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UNIFIED PATENT COURT - The Unified Patent Court (UPC) should become a reality in 2022 or in the first few months of 2023. The Protocol on Provisional Application (PPA) of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (AUPC)...more

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Intellectual Property & Health | News To Know - France & Europe - September 2021

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Patent and trademark issues effecting pharmaceutical laboratories, biotechs, food supplements and dietary products professionals, cosmetics companies and medical devices manufacturers is continually evolving across France and...more

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UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter: Life Sciences: What's new in France? The Santen case and the notion of second medical...

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How to interpret the notion of second medical use with regards to SPCs? This is the question which was asked of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) by the court of appeal of Paris on behalf of the French...more

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Special Report - 2019 IP Law Year in Review – European Issues

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The last year of the 2010s has been prolific in terms of important new pieces of legislation and case law within the European Union, and in France and Germany in particular. Indeed, the European Parliament and the EU Council...more

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France – Trade secrets protection optimized with new procedural measures before Courts

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The FRAND patent litigation case between Conversant Wireless Licensing SARL and LG Electronics Inc. and LG Electronics France offers a first and exemplary illustration of an extensive use of the procedural arrangements...more

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Implementation of the EU “Trademark Package” in France

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Further to the adoption of the so-called Trademark Package at the European level, comprised of Regulation no.2015/2424 (as codified by Regulation no.2017/1001 dated 14 June 2017) on European Union (“EU”) Trademarks (the...more

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French legal and regulatory update – June 2018

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e - newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for June 2018. ...more

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French Intellectual Property Office Extends Granted SPC Expiration Date

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The Situation: The French Intellectual Property Office ("IPO") previously refused to adjust the expiration date of a granted supplementary protection certificate ("SPCs") when it had been calculated on the date of grant of...more

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Diplomatic Community-May 2017

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Kelley Drye’s Diplomatic Community is our quarterly newsletter that provides updates on public international law developments with a focus on diplomatic legal issues, international organizations, the law of immunities and...more

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The Impending Launch of the Unified Patent Court

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In a fundamental change to how European patents are going to be litigated in Europe, the United Patent Court (UPC) will soon have exclusive jurisdiction over European patent disputes and will be able to issue remedies that...more

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