A recent Court of Cassation decision has affirmed the principle that when separate infringement and invalidity proceedings are pending simultaneously, the court managing the…
In the recently published decision of Geratherm Medical AG v Gima SPA (Decision 12657/2015) the Court of Milan ruled that patent pro- tection for a numerical range of values…
A recent Court of Cassation decision has affirmed the principle that a variant of a patented invention that is not original over the patent (i.e., does not exceed the technical…
A recent decision from the Court of Milan confirmed the case law trend that the reformulation of a technical problem solved by a patented invention is inappropriate during legal…
On January 15 2016 the Court of Milan in Chaussures Eram Sarl v Unic Servizi Srl (Decision 554/2016) confirmed its partial previous decision (Decision 689/2013; for further…
The Italian Board of Appeal recently held that the conclusions of foreign national patent offices are relevant evidence when evaluating whether a patent owner seeking the…
A recent decision of the Court of Milan addressed the right to a fair reward which is available, in certain circumstances specified by patent law, to an employee working within…
In a recently published decision (Case 7416, Decision 33/2015) the Italian Board of Appeal issued its ruling on an appeal filed by Sebastiano Cardillo Ciccione requesting reversal…