Yang analysed the recent judgment in Optis v Apple Trial E (one of six related trials), which focuses on the terms of a FRAND licence and the conduct of the parties in the negotiations.Marcel Pemsel reviewed the new book by Pierre Heuzé, written in French, entitled L'épuisement des droits de propriété intellectuelle sur un matériel biologique en droit suisse [Exhaustion of intellectual property rights in biological material under Swiss law]. [read post]

Pierre HeuzéUniversité de GenèveWhenever a patent holder fails to prove that the patent protection of a component, incorporated into a complex product, is not of subordinate importance to the basic functional characteristic of the good (in this case of vehicles, characterized as bringing passengers from one point to another safely), the doctrine of exhaustion applies, irrespective of where the complex product was marketed. [read post]

For long, scholars interested in the French conflict of laws had to refer to a few traditional books, in particular the treaty of Batiffol and Lagarde (8th edition 1993), but also the manuals of Loussouarn and Bourel (9th edition 2007, with professor Pascal de Vareilles-Sommières), of Pierre Mayer (9th edition 2007, with professor Vincent Heuzé), [...] [read post]