Yesterday, the Supreme Court rendered a significant decision in the Enercon patent litigation. The court addressed the issue of multiplicity of proceedings in patent cases with regard to opposition, invalidation and revocation. The judgement goes a long way in streamlining the procedural aspects of patent cases. A patent can be annulled in three ways – either by way of an opposition (pre or post grant), through a revocation proceeding before the IPAB or by way of a counter-claim in an...
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