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A judgment by Valencia Commercial Court no. 4, recognizes the right of the breeder of a protected variety to act only against the harvested material and awards compensation equivalent to the profit obtained from marketing the fruit illegally.
A plant variety must meet four requirements for the breeder to obtain exclusive protection: novelty, distinctness, uniformity

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has accepted the possibility of submitting new evidence of the inventive step of a patent application or patent that has been granted during the grant and opposition procedures. 
Article 52(1) of the European Patent Convention (EPC) provides that European patents shall be granted for

For the first time, the Supreme Court’s criminal chamber has upheld the existence of indemnifiable moral damage where there has been no actual sale of counterfeit products; an issue which, until now, has not escaped dispute.
A Supreme Court ruling last 13 July establishes that the mere possession of counterfeit products and their display for