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8 Mar 2015, 6:29 am
This moggy notes with concern that the posting of comments on the IPKat's weblog on European Patent Office (EPO) matters has got somewhat out of hand. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 2:46 pm
Merpel has received a very sad communication from the European Patent Office (EPO)  Described as "Open Letter from the representatives of the management during the GCC on 27.02.2015" it appears to describe a complete breakdown in relations and communications between management and staff representatives at the EPO. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 2:43 pm
Things to do with patent filing figuresThe European Patent Office publishes some patent data on which Katfriends at the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys have already pounced. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 12:19 pm
Later in the year the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) is holding an IP Mediation Open Day in Alicante on Monday 15 June 2015. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 4:49 am
The report can be found here ["The income of fully self-financed Agencies and the EU budget", 82 pages, which focuses on OHIM and the Community Plant Varieties Office: remember, the European Patent Office is not an EU Agency. [read post]
1 Mar 2015, 4:01 pm
The only proper, long-term solution is to revise the EPC so as to take the Boards out of the structure of the Office completely, placing them as a separate independent body within the European Patent Organisation.Mr Battistelli, President of the EPO, was reportedly furious when, in a previous decision, R19/12 (reported here), the EBA decided that the nature of the Chairman's involvement in the management of the Office gave rise to a justified suspicion of… [read post]
1 Mar 2015, 4:30 am by Barry Sookman
RT @AdamMossoff: More bogus, junk science in #patent policy w/ claims re: all patent #licensing based on 188 people answering survey https:… -> Ontario Court of Appeal clamps down on surveillance evidence http://t.co/mhHLrQZCst -> Judge tosses 'Frozen' lawsuit filed by N.J. author who accused Disney of ripoff http://t.co/YExeC32o6I -> UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility http://t.co/JsqQZa31rf -> Obama hedges position on… [read post]
1 Mar 2015, 4:19 am
Good fences make good neighboursThe European Patent Office (EPO) finally decided on what the ‘same invention’ was for priority purposes in G2/98. [read post]
27 Feb 2015, 6:01 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
The Financial Times noted non-Europeans are dominating the European landscape:--In 2014, filings from the US, Japan and China accounted for 53 per cent of the 274,000 new patents in Europe, according to data from the European Patent Office. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 2:31 am
"Opstelten: uitspraak rechter geldt niet voor Europese instelling" is the title of an article in this morning's edition of Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, which brings tidings of the latest twist in the battle over the European Patent Office's governance. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 4:01 pm
Decisions based upon this could be incorrect and potentially harmful".Funnily enough today the European Patent Office publishes some patent data on which this Kat's friends at the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys have already pounced, producing the following media release. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 10:13 am
A little over 24 hours ago, the IPKat's faithful friend and colleague Merpel posted the news that the UK's Intellectual  Property Office (IPO) had issued a statement concerning the current situation in the European Patent Office. [read post]
24 Feb 2015, 4:28 am
 The following Communiqué, issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) President, Benoît Battistelli, is so self-explanatory that it needs little comment other than to clarify some of the abbreviations. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 8:06 am
These are troubled times indeed in the annals of the European Patent Office. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 6:47 am by Ingrid Mattson
This year’s symposium features a review of recent developments in the areas of patent, copyright and trademark law, as well as discussions of the new trademark legislation in China and of the legal, business and ethical issues confronting businesses dealing with personal information in light of recent movements in the European Union toward a digital “right to be forgotten”. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 2:55 am
* CIPA gives the Administrative Council something to chew onAs recently reported, situation at the European Patent Office (EPO) is getting hot in view of the Administrative Council (AC) meeting of 25 March. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 2:30 am
 However, days turned to weeks and this Kat's attention was sucked away from his good intentions by developments in the European Patent Office and elsewhere [though fellow Kat Eleonora swiftly and admirably filled the breach with an analytical Katpost here]. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 4:31 am
The action before it was brought by EPO staff union SUEPO against the European Patent Office and the court has, it seems, allowed an appeal against a decision of the Rechtbank den Haag of 14 January 2014 (here, but only in Dutch), lifted the immunity of the EPO, ordering it to rescind several recent amendments to the organisation's staff regulations. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 2:00 am by Florian Mueller
Since December, I've been following the labor and human rights conflict at the European Patent Office and the debate over judicial independence. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 12:44 am
at the United Kingdom's Intellectual Property Office), was first to notify the IPKat of the findings of the US Chamber of Commerce Global IP Center IP Index. [read post]