Intellectual Property Notes is Herbert Smith Freehills' IP know-how blog where you will find the latest developments on intellectual property law and practice.
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Mixing it up: The end of the line for patent term extensions for formulation patents in Australia
Australia - December 23 2025 The recent decision of the Full Court of Australia in Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co Ltd v Sun Pharma ANZ Pty Ltd [2025] FCAFC 161 represents a significant…
The UPC warms to its long-arm jurisdiction powers as BSH takes effect across European patent courts
European Union, United Kingdom - December 18 2025 2025 has been the year of the "long-arm" jurisdiction at the UPC with an increasing number of injunctions covering patent infringement in non-UPC…
A new era for EU pharmaceutical law: political agreement reached on the reform
European Union - December 15 2025 After many months of intense negotiations, the European Parliament and the Council of the EUhave reached an agreement on a proposed draft of the EU…
Preserving the status quo: Boehringer Ingelheim awarded interim injunction
United Kingdom - December 9 2025 The Patents Court has granted Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) an interim injunction restraining Dr Reddy's Laboratories (Dr Reddy's) from launching its…
The UPC confirms the applicable doctrine of equivalence test when parties cannot agree one and applies a form of file wrapper estoppel on literal infringement claims
European Union - December 4 2025 In Raccords et Plastiques Nicoll v. First Plast France and others UPC_CFI_612/2024, 24 October 2025, the Paris Local Division (LD) of the UPC has…
Playtech v Realtime: Court of Appeal finds no “direct damage” in the UK in a cross‑border trade secrets dispute
United Kingdom - December 4 2025 The Court of Appeal in a decision in Playtech Software Limited v Realtime SIA & Anor [2025] EWCA Civ 1472 has applied Article 4(1) of the Rome II…
UPC holds CE marking approval is evidence of imminent infringement and starts the clock running where considering any (unreasonable) delay in a PI application
European Union - December 2 2025 The UPC’s Hamburg Local Division (LD) has granted a preliminary injunction (PI) preventingLepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co from offering, placing…
Accounting for profits - interest and double recovery in Lufthansa v Astronics and Panasonic
United Kingdom - November 28 2025 Choosing to claim damages or an account of profits at the end of any intellectual property dispute is a difficult decision. It is typically driven by…
FRAND interim licensing - where are the limits?
United Kingdom - November 26 2025 Over the last year the UK Court of Appeal has been developing a new line of case law in the FRAND space - creating, for the first time, 'interim…
Munich court finds copyright infringement of song lyrics 'memorised' by ChatGPT
Germany - November 18 2025 The "memorisation" of training data and reproduction of song lyrics in ChatGPT outputs has been found to infringe copyright, by the Munich I Regional…
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