Result: all claims against our client and his colleagues were dropped, and the illegal patent was revoked
In the summer of 2021, we were approached by a client in a not-so-typical dispute involving a patent for an invention.
Thus. a certain individual entrepreneur wrote to our client, as well as several other persons engaged in a similar type of activity, about the need to pay this IP the sum of about 6 million tenge each for allegedly violating his patent for invention.
We rejected these claims because:
- Our client and his colleagues were using this equipment long before the day this IE registered his patent for himself,
- This patent was 1-in-1 copied from the Belarusian patent, down to the pictures and typos, registered earlier,
- The device itself is not subject to patent protection because it is not new, as it has been in popular use for thousands of years.
In response to the claim-claim, we filed a lawsuit in court to invalidate the patent, as a result of which the court accepted our position and satisfied the claim to the fullest extent. Accordingly, all claims against our client and his colleagues were dismissed, and this illegal patent was invalidated.
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