The first decision from the UPC on sufficiency — handed down in the Amgen v. Sanofi case — provides the first clear guidance on how the court will address whether a patent’s disclosure is sufficient.
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In this insight, Dehns Partner Rob Jackson and Conor Wilman from our Technology, Software and Engineering group explore the UPC’s Court of Appeal recent issues of two important decisions about how it will assess inventive step in patent cases.
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The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) is consulting on possible changes to the UK design framework with the aims of improving design validity, simplifying the regime, and protecting emerging forms of design.
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The G1/23 ruling from the European Patent Office marked a pivotal shift in how marketed products are treated as prior art, redefining the principles of reproducibility and disclosure across Europe. Dehns has collaborated with international patent experts to provide a global perspective on the ruling.
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This decision concerned an application for provisional measures, in particular an anti-anti-suit injunction (‘AASI’), by Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited against the defendant Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
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Dehns Partner, Tim Wilson explores the recent news on the use of the semicolon plummeting and whether this change impacts the patent drafting of an invention.
More than ever, companies are appreciating the value of trade secrets as key IP assets that can exploited to improve their commercial edge. Trade secret protection varies in different parts of the world but many governments are proactively updating their legal provisions to ensure that innovators are protected.
Panasonic Holdings Corporation (Panasonic) brought an infringement action against Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd and OROPE Germany GmBH (OPPO), accusing OPPO of infringing Panasonic’s patent EP 2 568 724 in their 4G-capable products including smartphones and smartwatches. Emily Dekker, Trainee Patent Attorney discusses this matter in more detail.
Huawei brought an action in the Munich local division against Netgear for infringement of EP3611989 in relation to various of its WiFi access point products. Huawei had declared EP’989 to be essential to the IEEE 802.11ax (“WiFi 6”) standard and so was obliged to offer a licence on Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms. However, no licence could be agreed.
On 1st May 2025, Phase 1 of the EUIPO’s design reform came into effect. Many of the changes brought about by this reform are motivated by a desire to align EU design law with the world around us, which is increasingly manifesting in digital forms.
Printing giants Hewlett-Packard (“HP”) brought a claim of infringement against French electronics wholesaler LAMA France (“LAMA”) before the Paris Local Division of the UPC at the end of last year, from which they came out (partially) victorious.
The creation and enjoyment of music is, in many ways, one of humanity’s purest creative activities. It is tempting to draw sharp contrast between the aesthetic nature and inexact qualities of musical creation and the analytical rigour of modern scientific research and technological innovation. To translate into IP terms: isn’t music the realm of copyright rather than patents?
With the changes to EU Design law coming into force on 1 May 2025, there are changes to how renewal periods are calculated. There are also significant increases to the renewal fees. Holders of EU designs should check carefully that they monitor renewal deadlines according to the new rules from 1 May 2025, especially as these deadlines will now fall a few days earlier in most cases.
After more than 20 years, the legislation for Registered Community Designs is being updated. The first phase of these changes will come into force on 1 May 2025.
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has been open for a little over a year, and its first substantive decisions on revocation and infringement actions are starting to come through. A skim through the UPC decisions page shows that a wide range of groups are getting involved in the UPC, from large to small companies and from engineering to pharma, putting to bed the fear that uptake in this new court would be low.
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