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Before lunch yesterday, attendees were treated to a session on the protection and potential remedies that may be available for patents before issue and after expiry.  With Steve Garland ( Smart & Biggar) at the helm, the AmeriKat summarizes the four key points coming from the session as follows:  Views from the pre-grant and post-expiry remedies session 1.  Use Italian preliminary measures to weaponize an early injunction threat with a pre-grant injunction.    Judge Marina Tavassi  (President of the Milan Court of Appeal) explained that in Italy there is a tradition of patentees seeking and obtaining pre-grant injunctions on the basis of their published, but not granted, patent applications.  It was explained that this tool was available in recognition and to counterbalance the length of the ultimate substantive patent proceedings. Judge Tavassi noted that the patent trials in Italy are speeding up, particularly because, she said, Italy enjoys sp...

This year's AIPPI Congress is in Cancun, Mexico.  Yes, try explaining this location to your colleagues and clients.  But although the waters are crystal blue and the sand warm and soft, most attendees are spending their days in windowless conference rooms debating the latest developments in IP law and practice.  One such person is guest Kat reporter, Richard Vary ( Bird & Bird ) who was on hand to report on yesterday's panel session on standard essential patents (SEPs).  Over to Richard: Yesterday's SEP session " Gertjan Kuipers from De Brauw chaired the highlight of the AIPPI Conference for 2018: the SEP panel (at least in this author's view). He chose as the topic the slightly less often asked question of how to optimise a patent business in today's SEP licensing world.  Peter Martinsson from Ericsson introduced Ericsson's contributions to the connected world. He reminded us of the huge advances made in the last few years. Wireless connectivity is...