Belgium: Patent

In this sixth alert in our weekly series on the EU Pharma Package, we focus on the proposals of the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of the EU for another topic with a highly debated scope and with diverging interpretations across EU Member States: the "Bolar" exemption.

The transformative nature of artificial intelligence means it will continue to be a live issue this year, with attention also on the UPC, SEP licensing and platform liability.

On 7 June 2017, Justice Birss of the English High Court of Justice issued a "FRAND" injunction against Huawei in its longstanding licensing dispute pitting it against Unwired Planet, a US based patent assertion entity.