Recht·IE Forum·6 jan 2022

Wouter Pors: AstraZeneca vs Menzis / Appeal

On 14 October 2020 the District Court The Hague held AstraZeneca liable for damages incurred by healthcare insurance company Menzis, resulting from an unjustified enrichment of AstraZeneca [IEF 19490]. This in turn resulted from enforcing a patent that was later invalidated by the Court of Appeal The Hague. I commented on this judgment in an article on IE-Forum on 15 October 2020 [IEF 19496] , in which I called this a landslide decision, because this was the first such claim by an insurance company. The judgment has now been overturned by the Court of Appeal [IEF 20449].