Brussels, 07/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 7 July, the European Court of Justice decided that a beneficiary of a patent licence must pay the agreed royalty even if it does not infringe the patented technology.
In this judgment (C-567/14), involving the Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland group, the Cour d'appel de Paris (Court of Appeal, Paris), asked the Court of Justice whether a company that has been granted a global nonexclusive licence for using a specific kind of technology should pay...