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Defending Design Patents

Patently-O

So these studies can’t tell us much about what’s going on in the Federal Circuit era, unless one assumes—unreasonably—that the Federal Circuit didn’t meaningfully change design patent law. We note that our findings are consistent with what Professor Crouch found in his 2010 study of design patent examination.).

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)

SpicyIP

Highlights of the Week Hot-Tubbing in Indian IP Litigation: Delhi High Court Issues Directives in High-Stakes Patent Infringement Case Image from [link] here Recently, the DHC issued directives regarding expert evidence in the Perjeta patent litigation. Justice Prathiba M Singh’s Commentary on patents law released.

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No "German injunction gap" expedition in Abbott v Dexcom global diabetes battle, as Mr Justice Mellor expresses "some regret"

The IPKat

A primary motivation for Abbott's expedition application was to obtain a UK court decision on the validity of four European patents in order to influence a German court considering infringement of the German EP equivalents and to prevent the problems of the "injunction gap". Purr-haps a good topic for a dissertation.