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4 Aug 2014, 2:04 am
Patent and Trademark Office’s appeals board were paid more than $5 million for their time even though there was so little work for them to do that supervisors didn’t care how they used it". [read post]
3 Aug 2014, 6:21 pm by Dennis Crouch
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) refused the applications on the basis that, given the CJEU’s earlier judgment in Brüstle2, the claimed subject matter related to the use of human embryos for industrial or commercial purposes and was therefore not patentable. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 12:32 am
The Eiffel Tower is not visible from this angle, it would appear.Back in 2010, when Benoît Battistelli was first appointed as President of the European Patent Office (EPO), there was a certain lack of transparency in the election process. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 4:22 pm
MIP: food for thoughtWhile interest in the governance of Eponia (the eponymous Central European fiefdom of the European Patent Office) runs gratifyingly high, as the comments posted to Merpel's Sunday night blogpost testify, a more serious thread of interest in the present and future of the European patent system is not hard to discern either, as it weaves its way through the consciousness of the patent community. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 7:31 am
This is the third and perhaps final episode of Darren’s series on the role of “precedent” in the European Patent Office (‘EPO’) [the previous two posts are here and here]. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 6:23 am by Dennis Crouch
Taking patents as an example, it would appear that the Scottish Government intends to allow patents to be granted using the European Patent Office, given its stated aim to ensure continuity of the legal framework. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 1:19 pm
Practically independent already: the EuropeanPatent Office -- or is it now Eponia? [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 5:30 am by Barry Sookman
Segin Software, LLC (PTAB 2014) http://t.co/rVoZlj6vEA -> Bombay HC clarifies first of several gray areas in Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 http://t.co/80UNTFsHfh -> Data Structure Patent Ineligible in US http://t.co/ZvVfYbVZEl -> CRTC takes action against telemarketers selling home improvement services http://t.co/dO3BGsKxvQ -> When is news reporting fair use under copyright law? [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 9:33 am
The blog also contains links to other sites which may be useful when preparing for the PEB [Patent Examination Board] exams and the EQEs [European Qualifying Examinations]. [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 5:30 am by Barry Sookman
Segin Software, LLC (PTAB 2014) http://t.co/rVoZlj6vEA -> Bombay HC clarifies first of several gray areas in Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 http://t.co/80UNTFsHfh -> Data Structure Patent Ineligible in US http://t.co/ZvVfYbVZEl -> CRTC takes action against telemarketers selling home improvement services http://t.co/dO3BGsKxvQ -> When is news reporting fair use under copyright law? [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 5:30 am by Barry Sookman
Segin Software, LLC (PTAB 2014) http://t.co/rVoZlj6vEA -> Bombay HC clarifies first of several gray areas in Copyright (Amendment) Act, 2012 http://t.co/80UNTFsHfh -> Data Structure Patent Ineligible in US http://t.co/ZvVfYbVZEl -> CRTC takes action against telemarketers selling home improvement services http://t.co/dO3BGsKxvQ -> When is news reporting fair use under copyright law? [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 10:32 am
This is the third and, the IPKat expects, final post in this reflective series considering the role of “precedent” at the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 4:34 am
On Afro-IP, Kingsley Egbuonu considers a recent review of patent trolling threats in Nigeria. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 1:24 am
One of the interesting points at stake is the definition and scope of the word "medical" in Article 1(2) of Directive 2001/83 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use and Article 2(1) of Regulation 726/2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency-- a definitional issue that this Kat might perhaps have expected to… [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 1:51 pm
The IPKat was very heartened by the responses to the post on Tuesday on the concepts of "precedent" and "binding nature" at the European Patent Office. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 8:15 am
 Particularly at the European Patent Office (EPO) the issue is contradictory and confusing. [read post]
15 Jul 2014, 4:51 am by Terry Hart
In that year, Congress appropriated funds to the US Copyright Office to engage in a series of studies on issues relating to copyright revision. [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 12:25 pm by Gene Quinn
To facilitate electronic file sharing between IP offices, such as the sharing relating to the priority document exchange (PDX) program and the program by which U.S. search results are delivered to the European Patent Office (EPO), USPTO is proposing to amend its rules of practice to include a specific provision by which an applicant can authorize the USPTO to give a foreign IP office access to all or part of the file contents of an unpublished U.S.… [read post]
14 Jul 2014, 5:56 am
The decision could touch fields other that the retail one, and Jeremy wonders whether trade mark offices should get more in touch with the real world. [read post]