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10 Jul 2014, 8:38 am
In a dispute between Apple and the DPMA (the German Patent and Trademark Office) relating to the registrability of Apple’s device trade mark depicting its flagship store design, the German Federal Patent Court had referred the below questions to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 3:35 am
A UK chartered patent attorney, European Patent Attorney and Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Carol has over 30 years of experience in patents and has represented Shell on the Council of the IP Federation since 2008. [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 6:49 am
Not as high profile as the newer applicationsThe IPKat has always been somewhat dismayed by the continued focus on reducing the delay between filing patent applications and the European Patent Office (EPO) issuing a first opinion on patentability, while ignoring the fact that there are thousands of files in the European system that have gone several years with no action, often despite pleas for attention from the applicant or attorney.For… [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 2:35 am
In a press release issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) and received by this blogger just five minutes ago, the EPO announced that its president, together with Kamel Ben Naceur, the Tunisian Minister for Industry, Energy and Mines, have put their signatures to an agreement on the validation of European patents for Tunisia. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 12:32 pm
After ten European judges determined that Apple did not deserve a patent on slide-to-unlock in light of the prior art, Judge Koh would be the first judge in the world to find this thing patentworthy if she denied the related part of Samsung's JMOL motion. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 3:21 pm
Yesterday the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) launched its new online patent renewal service, which seeks to make it simpler, quicker and cheaper for businesses and inventors to renew their patents. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 1:48 pm
The European Patent Office (EPO) recently published its review of case law from 2012 and 2013. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 7:30 am
(European Court upholds French full veil ban, BBC News Online, July 1, 2014). [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 12:35 am
Incidentally, The SPC Blog organises an annual seminar, which is free to all comers and provides a great opportunity for pharma patent-owning companies, generics, private practitioners and patent office functionaries to get together and compare notes.****************************************** PatLit tackles patent dispute resolution topics -- principally litigation -- not just from the UK but from wherever interesting news and comm [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 5:23 pm
As the new European Parliament considers the Data Protection Regulation, Privacy International raises the important issue, “How privacy-friendly is the new European Parliament? [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 3:46 pm
A discount of 5% will be given on orders for 5 or more copies.The Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office were substantially revised in 2003. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 2:12 am
... and for Dolce & Gabbana (with tattoos this time)The rightholder would likely be the police and not the individual officer who took the photo [who - among other things, courtesy of Sections 79 and 82 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - would likely be unable to enjoy his/her moral rights]. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 6:46 pm
The Comptroller has the power to revoke a national patent where a UK designated European Patent protects the same invention. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 11:29 am
Important meetings at relatively short notice are a great way of disenfranchising those who do not practise in the London area, who may be attending European Patent Office hearings in Munich, racing to meet office deadlines or doing other work that cannot be conveniently dropped. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 4:40 am
Cat passport in paw, Merpel heads outMerpel has been rather overdue another visit to the august corridors of the European Patent Office, since she has been detained in Paris and was denied an exit visa due to irregularities with her pet passport. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 3:16 am
This Kat has received a welcome communication from his friend Takuya Tanabu, writing to him on behalf of the Japan Patent Office. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 1:52 am
MIP doesn't stipulate whether the list is of people exercising a good influence or a not-so-good one [this small but subtle point may be of interest to European Patent Office employees]. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 1:17 am
In the U.S. these two companies had not yet won anything against each other, but in Germany Apple had enforced three (permanent and provisionally enforceable) injunctions against Motorola -- two of them over patents the Federal Patent Court of Germany later declared invalid and one of them over a patent the European Patent Office may still revoke -- and Motorola had enforced a synchronization patent against Apple in Germany for 19… [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 7:44 pm
The patent in suit was European Patent (GB) 1 095 541, relating to energy saving technology for use with fluorescent tubes. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 12:43 pm
The Tegernsee Group refers to those patent offices represented at a meeting in Tegernsee, Germany, in July 2011. [read post]
