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17 Sep 2014, 3:58 am
Given the target of two million patent filings per year by next year in China, this scale and growth is essential; SIPO recognises that this needs to go hand in hand with maintenance of quality and, if the outcome matches their ambition, then patent offices around the world will want to know how they did it. [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 1:17 pm
On July 10, 2014, the CJEU issued a preliminary ruling that a distinctive store layout may be registered as a protected trademark with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). [read post]
14 Sep 2014, 4:09 am
In addition to the Unified Patent Court the Act also allows for the sharing of unpublished patent applications with other patent offices through the UK IPO, which would allow for potential issues to be processed quicker and unclog the international system more. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 1:45 am
Says Katfriend and local Union boss Gwilym Roberts: “Union are delighted to welcome Mr Wim Van der Eijk, Enlarged Board of Appeal Chairman at the European Patent Office, as speaker at their next dinner on 23 September 2014. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 10:40 pm
The last two posts showed this again: Judge Koh declined to hold even the slide-to-unlock patent invalid despite prior art that convinced ten (of ten) European judges to invalidate the European member of the same patent family. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 3:10 am
This leads Merpel to speculate as to what might have been the outcome, had the same set of facts occurred in the European Patent Office. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 12:36 am
"In the morning there are going to be keynote addresses from Maria Martin-Prat of the European Commission, Shira Perlmutter of the US Patent and Trademark Office, and Dominic Young of the UK Copyright Hub. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 8:59 pm
There's only one European Apple patent-in-suit on which a final decision hasn't come down yet, and that's the rubber-banding patent, but the European Patent Office stated a preliminary opinion in July according to which that one is also invalid for lack of novelty over the prior art.While the slide-to-unlock patent, which Samsung worked around years ago, is next to irrelevant in a strategic sense, it's still… [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 2:21 am
The opposition division of the European Patent Office indicated in a document filed in July that independent claim 1 of EP2122678 does not meet the patentability requirement of novelty. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 11:54 pm
For example, one of Apple's patent claims-in-suit has meanwhile been rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and another patent-in-suit is from the same patent family whose European member has unanimously been deemed invalid by ten judges. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 8:38 am
The UK Intellectual Property Office had a small but satisfying victory of its own earlier this year [noted here], but it that was a rather less sophisticated operation, it seems. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 4:55 am
That book's web page is here.* The skilled person - more knowledgeable than ever beforeDavid covers the exciting pharma-patent ruling in Teva UK Limited & another v AstraZeneca AB [2014] EWHC 2873 (Pat) by Mr Justice Sales in the Patents Court for England and Wales, which focuses on the concept of Common General Knowledge (CGK). [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 1:00 am
The concept of common general knowledge (CGK) occupies a more prominent position in the UK’s inventive step regime than it does in the European Patent Office's (EPO) problem-and-solutionapproach or the classic U.S. analysis in Graham v John Deere. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 4:01 pm
Today's KatChat between Christopher Rennie-Smith and fellow Kat-blogger Darren Smyth about what really goes on in the European Patent Office Appeal Boards, among other things, has still a couple of spare spaces thanks to late cancellations, and we've accommodated the people who were already on our reserve list. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 2:10 am
Tomorrow afternoon, in a cosy corner of London' Holborn district, Christopher Rennie-Smith (formerly and again with Collyer Bristow, following a long spell at the European Patent Office) will be engaging in some constructive and indeed instructive discourse with IPKat team member and patent attorney Darren Smyth (EIP). [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 11:57 am
There was national phase entry into China, and other jurisdictions:China 14.06.2010 201080036159.9 European Patent Office (EPO) 13.01.2012 2010797516 Published: 25.04.2012India 28.12.2011 10362/DELNP/2011 Japan 14.12.2011 2012516176 Russian Federation 16.01.2012 2012101252As to the procedure for "inter partes review"Inter partes review is a new trial proceeding conducted at the Board to review the patentability of one or more claims in a… [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 10:00 am
Therefore, the timeline for the PTAB is close to the two-year time frame for resolution in Germany’s Federal Patent Court.EPO Board of Appeal Opposition DivisionDisputes involving European patents are governed by European Patent Organization’s (EPO) Board of Appeal, which is governed by the European Patent Convention. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 7:04 am
The published item called for crowd-funding of opposition proceedings against a European patent EP2140023, granted last year to Syngenta. [read post]
31 Aug 2014, 2:55 pm
Life sciences have been mired in controversy in the European Union since most of today's patent practitioners can remember. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 7:30 am
Readers may still be looking forward to a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Case C-661/13 Astellas Pharma Inc. v Polpharma SA Pharmaceutical Works, which was excitedly publicised by this Kat here and here on account of its potential for clarifying the scope of Bolar exemptions from patent infringement in favour of experimental use. [read post]
