{"id":10070,"date":"2023-07-25T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocat.sea-dev-and-sun.fr\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:12:44","slug":"apixaban-case-in-france-priority-to-the-patentee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/apixaban-case-in-france-priority-to-the-patentee\/","title":{"rendered":"APIXABAN case in France: priority to the patent holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My British colleague has already commented brilliantly on the UK ruling in this case from the point of view of plausibility (see <a href=\"https:\/\/patentblog.kluweriplaw.com\/2023\/05\/11\/plausibility-post-g2-21-apixaban-in-the-uk\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">here<\/a>). For my part, I\u2019d like to comment the French ruling in the same case, which takes the opposite view to the UK decision. We shall see that the French position is particularly pro-patent, more especially through the interpretation of the <strong>plausibility<\/strong> notion and of the priority right.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My British colleague has already commented brilliantly on the UK ruling in this case from the point of view of plausibility (see here). For my part, I\u2019d like to comment the French ruling in the same case, which takes the opposite view to the UK decision. We shall see that the French position is particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brevetabilite","category-brevets","category-pharmaceutique"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APIXABAN case in France: priority to the patentee - Dhenne Avocats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dhenne Avocats reviews the Apixaban decision in France and what it means for patentees seeking preliminary relief in pharmaceutical patent disputes.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhenne-avocats.fr\/en\/apixaban-case-in-france-priority-to-the-patentee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APIXABAN case in France: priority to the patentee - 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