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6 Jun 2013, 9:09 am
Known as the IP5, members include the USPTO, the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and [...] [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 8:58 am
Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) today announced early publication of a classification system meant to speed the patent granting process for applicants to both Offices. [read post]
2 Jun 2013, 12:30 am
Notwithstanding the fact that it is somewhere outside main European thinking when it comes to unitary European patent packages (on which see, most recently, Matthias Lamping's earlier Katpost here) and that so much of it faces dreamily outwards towards the Atlantic -- that sparkling cradle of aspirations -- instead of gravitating towards the centre of Europe where all the money is, Spain remains a major player in continental European jurisprudence. [read post]
1 Jun 2013, 2:03 pm
Copyrightability should be consistent from the moment of creation, just like patent offices don't reject applications that could result in standard-essential patents because of their subject matter (and patent law doesn't even have the "fair use" tool). [read post]
Fresh from the Press: The Pleas in Law of the Spanish Actions against the Unitary Patent Regulations
1 Jun 2013, 8:21 am
(5) Misapplication of the Meroni case-law in the delegation to the European Patent Office of certain administrative tasks relating to the European patent with unitary effect. [read post]
30 May 2013, 12:22 am
According to that firm's media release, clause 10A of the much-amended Patents Bill provides that: A computer program is not an invention nor a manner of manufacture, only to the extent that a claim relates to a computer program as such; A claim relates to a computer program as such if the actual contribution made by the alleged invention lies solely in it being a computer program [which is what this Kat thought the words "as such" meant when the European Patent… [read post]
29 May 2013, 2:41 am
The European Patent Office has found some 50% of amendments to be inadmissible, a particular problem being added subject matter. [read post]
28 May 2013, 11:45 am
As part of ongoing plans to improve the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)'s online services the IPO is digitally capturing all the paper copies of pre-1900 patent specifications as far back as 1600. [read post]
27 May 2013, 11:51 am
The event is kindly hosted by Allen & Overy LLP in its London office (click here for address and map). [read post]
25 May 2013, 1:52 am
The applicant appealed, claiming that there is no basis in the European Patent Convention (EPC) for the Office to delay the grant of a patent which is otherwise in-order. [read post]
23 May 2013, 6:28 pm
This patent family also has some European members (such as EP1685689 and EP1965555), which Nokia might assert in the UK, Germany or other European countries. [read post]
22 May 2013, 7:15 am
Whether you love pharmaceutical patents to the point of extending them, or side with the generic drug industry in aiming to prise them away from patent protection, this is for you. [read post]
22 May 2013, 12:38 am
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been asked to consider some questions of vital importance to our understanding of how patent monopolies and standard-essential proprietary technologies fit in with the European Union's omnipowerful rules on competition and antitrust in Case C-170/13 Huawei Technologies. [read post]
21 May 2013, 5:31 am
In the Microsoft case it was key that the FRAND contract case had been brought in the United States approximately eight months before Motorola filed the related German lawsuits, and Motorola had offered, in a letter sent from Illinois to Washington State in 2010, a worldwide license covering its declared-essential H.264 and IEEE 802.11 patents, also listing the European counterparts of the relevant U.S. patents. [read post]
19 May 2013, 11:58 pm
The new Intellectual Property Bill [click here for the Bill, here for the Intellectual Property Office's Bill page] contains a new section for the Patents Act which aims at starting the ratification process. [read post]
18 May 2013, 5:30 am
http://t.co/NfROIaSlRw -> Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament http://t.co/GuXf4R3fLN -> Google seeks to preclude expert from testifying that Android infringes Nokia's tethering patent http://t.co/7YdjzOvnV9 -> Chief legal officers not so spooked about social media risk; are concerned about IP protection http://t.co/tkiz99FOTI -> McCarthy Tetrault wins B.C. pro bono award http://t.co/tXu5ko9jsY -> Amazon UK pays $3.7 million tax on $6.5… [read post]
17 May 2013, 6:36 am
The Official Journal of the European Union has published on a number of occasions the following Notice to Readers: Council Regulation (EU) No 216/2013 of 7 March 2013 on the electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union In accordance with Council Regulation (EU) No 216/2013 of 7 March 2013 on the electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ L 69, 13.3.2013, p. 1), as of 1 July 2013, only the… [read post]
17 May 2013, 12:59 am
Considering that most patents are invalid as granted by the European Patent Office or the German Patent and Trademark Office, that's sensible. [read post]
9 May 2013, 1:56 pm
Patent Office) was invited "to protect the public interest by intervening to the extent necessary to prevent invalid patents being restored to the register". [read post]
8 May 2013, 1:32 pm
Instead, he stayed the FRAND determination lawsuit because the patent to which it related, EP1841268 on "access of a mobile station to a random access channel in dependence of its user class", is subject to an opposition proceeding at the European Patent Office and -- as Justice Mann concluded -- will survive only in an amended form (if not revoked entirely) when all is said and done, but apparently not in the form in which the UK court had previously (in an… [read post]
