Patent and trademark issues effecting pharmaceutical laboratories, biotechs, food supplements and dietary products professionals, cosmetics companies and medical devices manufacturers is continually evolving across France and the EU. We are regularly monitoring key cases and news, to provide insights as to how this impacts business within your sector.

DRAFT LAW – FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING – INTERNET – CUSTOMS POWERS -

On June 15, 2021, a bill to modernize the fight against counterfeiting (No. 4246) was tabled in the French National Assembly. Some of the provisions, in particular its Articles 11 and 15, aim to more effectively combat counterfeit medicines...

APPLICATION FOR INTERIM MEASURES – COUNTERCLAIM FOR PATENT INVALIDITY – INVENTIVE STEP – PLAUSIBILITY OF THE INVENTION -

TJ Paris [Judicial Court of Paris], May 12, 2021, Sanofi v. Teva (No. RG 21/53136) The Court found the defendant’s arguments to be sufficiently serious to call into question the apparent validity of the asserted patent and to reject plaintiff’s request for interim measures...