The Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk has placed on its website a new briefing paper on Cross-Border Litigation over European Patents.
The paper written by the IPR-Helpdesk legal team can be found at the following URL http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/updates
In cases of infringement, patents serve their purpose only if they are actually enforced by their owners.
The enforcement of a patent is generally introduced by means of a warning letter, presented to the infringing party, and may lead, if this warning is not successful, to legal proceedings.
The national courts dealing with such patent disputes must at the same time often take international aspects surrounding the case into consideration.
In particular, when a European patent is infringed in different European states, it suggests itself to expand the case also to acts of infringement which have gone beyond the territory of the court.
The question is particularly explosive if the European patent is infringed not only by one company, but by companies from different Member States of the European Patent Organisation.
For full details of the paper go the IPR-Helpdesk website www.cordis..lu/ipr-helpdesk or send an e-mail to info@ipr-helpdesk.org
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Alexander Weir
Communications & Public Relations
Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk
64-66 avenue Victor Hugo
L-1750 Luxembourg
Tel: (+352) 47 11 11 1
Fax: (+352) 47 11 11 47
http://www.cordis.lu/ipr-helpdesk
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