Sentences with phrase «court nullity»

I plan to also blog about Microsoft v. Motorola cases pending before three Munich - based courts (a preliminary injunction case, a related Federal Patent Court nullity action, and an appeal involving a patent narrowed by the Federal Patent Court last year).

Not exact matches

It was a judgment forced on the State by the trial court, which makes it a complete nullity.

Besides, the court said the primary election that was conducted by the State Chapter of the PDP loyal to Modu - Sheriff, which produced Mr. Ibrahim, was a nullity.

He also represents clients, alongside patent - attorneys, in parallel opposition and nullity proceedings before the European Patent Office, Federal Patent Court and Federal Supreme Court.

Apple still argued that the case should be stayed not only pending the nullity proceedings at the Federal Patent Court but also the EU antitrust investigation.

Once a spouse goes to court and a judge says that a marriage is annulled, it becomes void — it's as though the marriage never existed (also known as a «legal nullity»).

What the court needs for a divorce, nullity or separation is jurisdiction.

We estimate that the number of county court decrees pronounced up and down the country over the past 20 months in undefendeds which were previously (before 28 April 1986) defended in the High Court could run into several thousands and hundreds are likely to have remarried on the strength of the decrees absolute now known to be nullicourt decrees pronounced up and down the country over the past 20 months in undefendeds which were previously (before 28 April 1986) defended in the High Court could run into several thousands and hundreds are likely to have remarried on the strength of the decrees absolute now known to be nulliCourt could run into several thousands and hundreds are likely to have remarried on the strength of the decrees absolute now known to be nullities.

The divorce decree is a nullity and any orders made by the county courts since transfer be they by way of custody, ancillary relief or otherwise are equally worthless.

Ford had therefore not contravened the act because the financial sanction had been «a nullity,» the court ruled.

A Singapore court that grants a judgment of divorce, judicial separation or nullity of marriage, has the power to order division between the parties of any matrimonial asset or the sale of any such asset and the division between the parties of the proceeds of the sale of any such asset «in such proportions as the court thinks just and equitable.»

In proceedings for nullity of marriage on the ground that the marriage is void or voidable, the court may, nonetheless, grant the relief sought where both parties to a marriage reside in Singapore at the time of the commencement of the proceedings.

Singapore courts shall have jurisdiction to hear proceedings for divorce, presumption of death and divorce, judicial separation or nullity of marriage only if either of the parties to the marriage is (a) domiciled in Singapore at the time of the commencement of the proceedings; or (b) habitually resident in Singapore for a period of 3 years immediately preceding the commencement of the proceedings.

The following sub-section provided that: «Nothing in this section shall affect the powers of any court to grant a decree of nullity of marriage.»

For example, the Federal Court of Justice affirmed the nullity ruling on Apple's slide - to - unlock patent, but disagreed with the Federal Patent Court for fear that its decision contained at least one statement that would get too many user interface patents invalidated.

Apple can only revive this case through a successful appeal of the Federal Patent Court's nullity ruling to the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice).

As I'll explain further below, a Linus Torvalds email that Motorola cited as prior art didn't ultimately persuade the court to stay this case for the duration of a parallel nullity action in the Federal Patent Ccourt to stay this case for the duration of a parallel nullity action in the Federal Patent CourtCourt.

Nullity actions before the Federal Patent Court take longer than infringement proceedings in Munich and Mannheim, but (excluding an appeal to the Federal Court of Justice) usually not much longer than ITC investigations.

A statute becomes a legal nullity within the jurisdiction of the ruling court.

The Munich team handles cases before the Munich courts (for infringement proceedings at the trial and appellate level) and the German Federal Patent Court (nullity actions), as well as in proceedings before the German PTO (cancellation actions) and the European Patent Office.

W subsequently married B, and some years later B petitioned an English court for a decree of nullity.

Infringement proceedings are frequently adjudged ahead of nullity cases (particularly in a court like Mannheim, a rocket docket for patents), but a regional court can stay an infringement case pending resolution of the nullity action if, in its assessment, there is a high likelihood of invalidation.

Neither of the decisions are binding on the Court and the label «nullity» is inapt in the circumstances of this case for three reasons:

The Court considered whether the misrepresentations made the subsequent grant of citizenship to them a nullity rather than rendering them liable to be deprived of that citizenship under the British Nationality Act 1981, ss 40 and 40A.

The Court considered the original decision of R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex p Mahmood [1981] QB 58 which adopted the nullity approach, rather than a deprivation of citizenship, which involved the purported grant of British citizenship to someone who was impersonating another real person.

But under Germany's bifurcation regime, the validity of patents is challenged in separate nullity proceedings that start before the Federal Patent Court.

Their lordships, by a majority, said the claimant's undoing was really due to his failure to proceed within the limitation period and held that a claim brought in respect of an act purporting to be done under the powers of MeHA 1983 was a complete nullity if the claimant had failed to obtain the leave of the High Court under MeHA 1983, s 139 (2) before issuing proceedings.

He also represents clients, alongside pat - ent - attorneys, in paral - lel opposition and nullity proceedings before the European Patent Office, Federal Patent Court and Federal Supreme Court.

Furthermore, since «a transaction may be annulled for lesion or any other cause of nullity of contracts in general» (Quebec Civil Code, section 2634), if a party is really duped into signing an ODR facilitated agreement, it will always be able to turn to the Courts to get it annulled.

The issue of the Douglases» capacity to bring this action came before the court in 2013, when the appellants brought a motion to strike the claim, arguing that the Douglases lacked capacity to commence the action because of their bankruptcies, and accordingly State Farm's action in their names was a nullity.

As stated by the Court in Beardsley v. Ontario (2001), 57 O.R. (3d) 1 (C.A.), at paras. 21 - 22: «The expiry of a limitation period does not render a cause of action a nullity; rather, it is a defence and must be pleaded.»

A court can also grant a nullity decree which is a declaration that a valid marriage never existed.