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30 Mar 2015, 11:11 am
* The European Patent Office: a Message from MerpelMerpel looks back to what has happened so far and forward for better news to come from the wonderful world of Eponia. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 12:52 am
Proceedings before the European Patent Office are often slow, complex and unpredictable in both procedural and substantive terms. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 8:03 pm
Following last week's Administrative Council Meeting of the European Patent Office [noted by Merpel here, followed by Merpel's own comments here], the Administrative Council and the European Patent Office's staff union SUEPO have each issued statements. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 12:33 am
From Rita Prins of Cresco BV comes the following episode from The Hague where, this Kat can confirm, it's not just the human rights of European Patent Office employees that come under scrutiny but real patents too. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 6:14 am
If you are planning to work over the Easter period, and if your work requires that you access any of the European Patent Office (EPO) online services listed below, you may want to replan your weekend and go searching for Easter eggs rather than for patents.From 19:00 Central European Time (CET) on Thursday 2 April 2015 to 07.00 CET on Tuesday, 7 April 2015 the following services will be unavailable:Prior art checkEspacenet - patent searchEuropean… [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 2:04 am
Readers of this weblog will not fail to have noticed the quantity of blogposts on the legal, administrative and social issues that have turned the European Patent Office (EPO), once a byword for expertise, efficiency and excellence, into the setting for a modern soap opera in which the three 'e's are replaced by the three 'p's: power-politics, point-scoring and paranoia.By recognising both the "social unease" that exists in the EPO and by… [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 1:07 am
My hopes for some progress resulting from this week's meeting of the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the multinational body that runs the European Patent Office (EPO), haven't been exceeded by much, but I'm not disappointed either. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 7:46 am
Readers who are currently involved in European Patent Office (EPO) opposition proceedings where the patent has been amended (i.e. about 70% of opposition cases) will no doubt be as excited as this Kat to learn that the Enlarged Board has issued its decision in G 3/14, a copy of which can be downloaded (PDF) from here.The decision is a big one, and the IPKat is only starting to digest it. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 5:41 am
"In mid-2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office had upheld three claims of that patent, including one Apple asserted against Samsung in the 2012 trial (and the related 2013 retrial).Apple still hasn't given up on its European rubberbanding patent. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 1:24 pm
As Merpel reported earlier today, there is a new blog on the block, belonging to AMBA, the European Patent Office's Association of Members of the Boards of Appeal. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 7:22 am
” Kennedy compared U.S. and European approaches to corrections and concluded that “we haven’t given it nearly enough thought. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 6:20 am
AMBA is the Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal, and is the organisation, independent of the European Patent Office itself, which represents - yes, you guessed it - members of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 12:56 am
The EPO is, indirectly, a cash cow for national patent offices (through renewal fees). [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 3:38 am
SOLO IP's Barbara Cookson breaks the monotony of having nothing much to blog about by reviewing what looks like a genuinely useful book on proceedings before the European Patent Office while, on Scrivener's Error, C.E. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 1:42 am
SMART WATER appeal runs dryJeremy pens an analysis of Case T‑250/13 Naazneen Investments Ltd v OHIM, Energy Brands, Inc. intervening, a GC’s decision addressing the issue of genuine use of a Community Trade Mark, credibility of proof of use, affidavit’s proof value, and water purity.* The EPO Breaks Silence: "No, we are not violating fundamental human rights"The management of the European Patent Office (‘EPO’) has… [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 5:01 pm
The oversight and supervision of the European Patent Office (EPO) is down to you and you alone. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 9:55 am
We started settling in on the European technical standard as a guide for how to draft, how to cover the innovation from that vantage point, in order to try to write this document that would satisfy the USPTO as well as the EPO, Chinese Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, and so on. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 5:19 am
The UK is a founding member of the European Patent Organisation, which has grown from 7 countries in 1977 to 38 member states today. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 10:49 am
The German Federal Patent Court, diverging from the German Patent and Trade Mark Office's appeal decision, found that there existed a likelihood of confusion with the disputed mark, in relation to identical goods, namely 'printed products', and with both identical and similar services, namely 'advertising services, 'organization of seminars' and 'organization of competitions' insofar as they were provided to… [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 8:41 am
It will be interesting to see whether this sentiment has changed recently, following the publication of the European Patent Office's Boards of Appeal reform plan.Strategies for IP litigation: (i) anti-counterfeiting strategies This session provided a very interesting comparison between the strategies employed in tackling the problems of tangible and intangible counterfeit goods. [read post]
