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It has been 40 years in coming but as early as 1 December this year the new Unitary Patent system will come into force.  Essentially it will provide a single patent right across 25 European jurisdictions and will be enforced by a brand new Unified Patent Court that operates separately from national courts. It is...

A Report on Diesel S.P.A. v The Controller of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks and Montex Holdings Ltd – High Court 2013/641 S.P.  [2016] IEHC 415

This decision is the latest round in a dispute that has been running since 1992 in Ireland between the Italian company Diesel S.P.A. and Montex Holdings Limited (“Montex”)...