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		<title>Individualization – Where does it end?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fairly recent case law of the EPO suggests that the concept of individualized disclosure may reach further than many people think. This can have severe implications for the validity of patents and patent applications, especially in the field of chemistry &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/18/individualization-%e2%80%93-where-does-it-end-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/18/individualization-%e2%80%93-where-does-it-end-2/</link>
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		<title>The Italian Supreme Court on prior use</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By decision of 5 April 2012, no. 5497, the Italian Supreme Court resolved an interesting case concerning the application of Article 68 (3) Italian IP Code, according to which “Whoever, in the course of 12 months preceding the filing date &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/15/the-italian-supreme-court-on-prior-use/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/15/the-italian-supreme-court-on-prior-use/</link>
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		<title>Software patents in Poland? YES!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Polish Supreme Administrative Court has recently recognized a contradiction between the decisions of the Polish Patent Office regarding computer-implemented inventions and the practice of the European Patent Office (EPO). However, it is too early to say for certain whether &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/14/software-patents-in-poland-yes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/14/software-patents-in-poland-yes/</link>
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		<title>Simple patent licences in insolvency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Stephan von Petersdorff-Campen Under paragraph 103 of the German Insolvency Act, an insolvency practitioner has the right to choose whether or not to honour existing contracts of the insolvent company. Does this right also apply for any patent licences &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/11/simple-patent-licences-in-insolvency/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary Injunction: Condition and Obstacle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a decision of 21&#160;March&#160;2012, the Cour d’Appel of Paris ruled on the issue of the appraisal which the French judge has to make when a request for a preliminary injunction against acts allegedly infringing a patent or an SPC &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/09/preliminary-injunction-condition-and-obstacle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/09/preliminary-injunction-condition-and-obstacle/</link>
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		<title>Is the Danish enforcement regimen finally to be reformed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many years in Denmark, interlocutory injunction proceedings have been organized under the aegis of the bailiff&#8217;s department of the municipal courts. This has entailed a number of disadvantages, not least in relation to patent cases. In most other countries &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/08/is-the-danish-enforcement-regimen-finally-to-be-reformed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/08/is-the-danish-enforcement-regimen-finally-to-be-reformed/</link>
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		<title>Painting a picture of prior use anticipation attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When does the demonstration of a model at a trade fair, or a similar limited availability of a product, constitute novelty-destroying prior disclosure? Although it will depend on the patent claims, the public’s opportunity to investigate the model may be &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/08/painting-a-picture-of-prior-use-anticipation-attacks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/08/painting-a-picture-of-prior-use-anticipation-attacks/</link>
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		<title>First Decision of Swiss Federal Supreme Court concerning pre-trial taking of evidence in patent matters (BGE 4A_532/2011)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Swiss Federal Supreme Court rendered its first decision regarding the new pre-trial taking of evidence proceeding in Switzerland&#8217;s new Code of Civil Procedure Law (ZPO) and in the Swiss Patent Act (PatG). More than a few patent practitioners feared &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/07/first-decision-of-swiss-federal-supreme-court-concerning-pre-trial-taking-of-evidence-in-patent-matters-bge-4a_5322011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/07/first-decision-of-swiss-federal-supreme-court-concerning-pre-trial-taking-of-evidence-in-patent-matters-bge-4a_5322011/</link>
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		<title>May a preliminary injunction be replaced with a bond?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most controversial provisions of the Spanish Patents Act is article 137.2, which states &#8220;Where the measures requested involve restrictions on the defendant&#8217;s industrial or commercial activity, the judge shall, when deciding with respect thereto, fix the amount &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/03/may-a-preliminary-injunction-be-replaced-with-a-bond/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/05/03/may-a-preliminary-injunction-be-replaced-with-a-bond/</link>
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		<title>Effects under Procedural Law if Patentee and Exclusive Licensee Claim Damages as &#8220;Essential Joint Litigants”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of this year, the German Federal Court of Justice (“FCJ”) rendered in “Tintenpatrone II” (“Ink Cartridge II”) (Docket No. X ZR 94/10) a decision of interest concerning the relation of patentee and exclusive licensee with regard to &#8230; <a href="http://kluwerpatentblog.com/2012/04/27/effects-under-procedural-law-if-patentee-and-exclusive-licensee-claim-damages-as-essential-joint-litigants%e2%80%9d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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