It’s Not Always About What You Do But How You Do It
Jan LindbergBy Jan Lindberg and Kiira Lehtonen The recent judgement of the Finnish Market Court (MAO:18/15) given on January 16th provides further guidelines as to what is expect from a method to be...
View ArticlePiercing the Corporate Veil in Finland and Sweden – When Could Shareholders...
Jan LindbergThis time we take a look at various decisions that share one thing in common — piercing the corporate veil doctrine. Even if these rulings are not purely patent law cases, they will...
View ArticleFinland: Should interim injunction decisions for utility models follow...
Jan LindbergInspired by several Finnish companies, like many other interest groups, having expressed their concern regarding the level of renewal fees of the Unitary Patent, I thought of writing about...
View ArticleSweden: Post-injunction liability for third party actions clarified
Jan LindbergBy Kristian Fredrikson, Dephi and Jan Lindberg, Trust Ltd. This time I want to introduce a fellow author from Sweden, Kristian Fredrikson, who promised to write about this interesting...
View ArticleUPC ratification progresses in Finland
Jan LindbergIn February this year, the Ministry of Employment and Economy of Finland set up a Working Group to make preparations for the ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (“UPC...
View ArticleFinland: Liability from Unnecessary Interim Measures Re-evaluated (Pfizer v....
Jan LindbergBy Jan Lindberg and Kiira Lehtonen About a year ago we had an exceptional case in Finland where Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Ranbaxy UK Limited and Ranbaxy Pharma AB (“Ranbaxy”) were...
View ArticleFinland Ratifies the UPC Agreement
Jan LindbergFinland became the ninth country to ratify the UPC Agreement when President Sauli Niinistö signed the law on its ratification on 8th of January 2016. The Parliament approved the...
View ArticleSome thoughts on security interests over patents from Finnish perspective and...
Jan LindbergAs the European Commission has recently asked organizations to submit comments to the Commission consultation on an effective insolvency framework within the EU (“Consultation”) and the...
View ArticleFinland: Proposed new act on university inventions increases freedom of...
Jan LindbergThe Finnish act on the right in inventions made at higher education institutions is in the process of being amended. The reason behind the underlying revision is to enhance the...
View ArticleFinland: Supreme Court Rules on Information Disclosures in Patent Litigations
Jan LindbergThe Finnish Supreme Court resolved in February 2019 on the matter of whether or not the preconditions for precautionary measures were at hand in a patent law infringement case. Firstly, the...
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