Can you sue a group of related companies for patent infringement across Europe in one consolidated proceedings in a single jurisdiction?

The following scorecard was included in two recent articles. Due to popular demand, I will separately keep it up to date as new results occur.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has now confirmed that a patent claim can be invalidated on what was previously considered to be a minor technical defect. (Basically, a dependant claim is invalid if it is not a subset of the claim from which it purports to depend.)

There's been a lot of buzz lately about various developing countries ordering Compulsory Licenses.

On Monday 6 August Novartis suffered a blow in its battle to obtain Indian patent protection for its beta crystalline form of Glivec (Imatinib mesylate). The case has attracted a lot of attention (a) because of India's unusual section 3(d) which limits patentability and (b) because this is the first patent to be challenged from the famous mail-box procedure.

Canada – Ranbaxy invalidates Enantiomer patent, litigation continues over Calcium salt patent (exp 2010) and Basic patent set to expire in May 2007. Denmark – In a bold move, Ranbaxy launched generic Atorvastatin on 12 February 2007, prior to a determination of the injunction application or the patent litigation.

Relative cost and time to first instance judgment are important components of global litigation strategy.

Why track the global patent dispute between Ranbaxy and Pfizer (Warner Lambert) over the world’s biggest selling drug – Lipitor? This is a no-brainer for those in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly in light of the associated life cycle management moves by Pfizer.

Hong Kong has been part of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1997. But the former British crown colony has a very different and nearly autonomous jurisdiction from its motherland. How do the PRC and Hong Kong relate to each other in regard to the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR)?

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet. Highlights this week included:briefs filed in the US Supreme Court in an effort to revive the doctrine of patent exhaustion and another positive step towards a single European patent litigation system.

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.

Here is IP Think Tank’s weekly selection of top intellectual property news breaking in the blogosphere and internet.