Hamleys has pushed back against a claim by Jellycat that it copied its smiling plush toys, arguing that other retailers sold food-inspired anthropomorphic plushies long before the toymaker launched its range.
Hamleys has pushed back against a claim by Jellycat that it copied its smiling plush toys, arguing that other retailers sold food-inspired anthropomorphic plushies long before the toymaker launched its range.
Appellate judges for the Unified Patent Court have held that national law dictates whether courts have the final say on patent validity within its jurisdiction, backing a lower court's decision to not rule on specific issues already addressed in parallel German litigation.
Europe's patent court has refused to order a biotech company to hand over documents submitted in parallel U.K. proceedings over CRISPR technology, ruling that two rivals should have asked the British judge instead.
A medical device maker has preserved its patent for a prosthetic heart valve after a European appellate board upheld a narrower version of its claims, despite a rival's arguments that earlier devices already disclosed its key features.
The U.S. government has won a second shot at patenting a technique to make coronavirus spike proteins for use in vaccines, as a European appellate panel found that an amended version of claims had eliminated a problematic feature.
