In its recent judgment of 4 November 2022, the Court of Appeal of Barcelona ruled on a case of patent infringement involving motorcycling helmets between the French company Shark and the Spanish company LS2. In its judgment, the appeal Court overturned an infringement decision issued by the Barcelona Commercial Court No. 5. An appeal in ...
Last Friday 17 February 2023 was a sad day for the EU. Germany decided to ratify a treaty that shatters the hope of one day having an EU patent law. The decision to accept a court promoted by certain lobbies was ratified. A special court that deprives the Court of Justice of the European Union ...
On 2 July 2022, the SPC manufacturing waiver, approved by EU Regulation 2019/933, came into effect. This regulation is one of the most important initiatives developed in Europe for the pharmaceutical industry that manufactures its products in the European Union. To understand the importance of this regulation, we must take into account that 24% of ...
An in depth study on the ongoing Standard Essential Patents (SEP) reform in the frame of the European Commission’s innovation promotion policy supported by a Pilot Study.
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.19.5″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_5″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.19.5″ src=”https://desarrollo.vidalquadrasramon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/VQR_LAW_NEW31.jpg” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”3.19.5″ comments=”off” featured_image=”off” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.5″] On 25 November last, the EU released its ‘IP Action Plan‘. A programme of major objectives for the Union in the coming years. The Roadmap, published on 10 July, opened a public consultation period of less than two months, until 31 August ...
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_5″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.19.5″ src=”https://desarrollo.vidalquadrasramon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/VQR_LAW_NEW23.jpg” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”3.19.5″ featured_image=”off” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.5″] On Friday 20 March, the German Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Federal Constitutional Court, published its Decision of 13 February 2020. This decision states that the Act of Approval to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, which conferred sovereign powers on the Unified Patent Court, is ...
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_5″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.19.5″ src=”https://desarrollo.vidalquadrasramon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/VQR_LAW_NEW13.jpg” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”3.19.5″ comments=”off” featured_image=”off” /][et_pb_text] On 18 December 2018, the Provincial High Court of Barcelona dismissed the appeal filed by Bayer against the judgement of the Court of First Instance, which had in turn dismissed the petition of infringement of two of its patents by several generic companies. The ...
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.19.5″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_5″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.19.5″ src=”https://desarrollo.vidalquadrasramon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/VQR_LAW_NEW6.jpg” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”3.19.5″ comments=”off” featured_image=”off” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.5″] On February 20, the European Council published the text that will be voted by the JURI Committee of the European Parliament on February 26. The main aspects of the negotiation focused on three points: The application date of the Regulation, that the ...
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.19.5″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”2_5″][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.19.5″ src=”https://desarrollo.vidalquadrasramon.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/VQR_LAW_NEW5.jpg” /][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”3.19.5″ comments=”off” featured_image=”off” /][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.5″] On February 20, 2019, Act 1/2019 on Trade Secrets was published. This Act transposes into Spanish law, with a certain delay, Directive 2016/943, of June 8, 2016, on the protection of trade secrets. The Act has 25 articles and modifies the system ...
