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27 Aug 2012, 7:59 am by lkravets
As noted above, most European countries do not allow business method and software patents. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 7:16 am
 One of the major changes was the creation of new procedures for challenging the validity of an issued patent before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”). [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 3:31 am
(photo by Emanuela Verrecchia) According to a media release from the European Patent Office, there's a neat little bit of reciprocity coming up in terms of document exchange, where European patent applications are claiming priority from a Chinese application or vice versa: The European Patent Office is pleased to announce that as of 3 September 2012 it is implementing automatic electronic exchange of priority documents… [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 5:01 pm by oliver
This appeal was filed against the decision of the Examining Division (ED) to refuse the application under consideration (claiming a mobile terminal for a wireless telecommunications system) for lack of inventive step.The decision was delivered during oral proceedings (OPs) before an ED in a different composition than the one having signed the summons to OPs. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 5:01 pm by oliver
The Australian applicant had an Australian patent attorney (“GH”) and was represented before the EPO by a European representative. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 4:50 am by Barry Eagar
When you open a page containing details of a patent, there is now a button labelled "Prior Art Finder" that allows you to search multiple sources for related content that existed at the time the application for the patent was filed.One of the sources is the European patent office which stores the details of over 70 million patents. [read post]
19 Aug 2012, 5:01 pm by oliver
They argued that they had only received a formal computer generated letter (EPO Form 2001A) inviting them to respond to the European search opinion attached to the European search report. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 9:15 am
Case law is an important means by which we know what is patentable at the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 1:10 pm by Doug Isenberg
Patent and Trademark Office — a separate search service when introduced in 2006 and recently integrated with Google Search — Google has added patents filed with the European Patent Office. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 3:17 pm
The IPKat has recently learned of Case: T 1688/08 AN OPTICAL ELEMENT/ Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, 17 July 2012, in which an European Patent Office Technical Appeals Board delivered a slap on the wrist to the Examining Division for assuming, when considering whether an invention for which patent protection was sought possessed a sufficient degree of inventive step, that the skilled person would only look at the English abstract and drawings of a Japanese… [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm by Eric J. Stock
  Together with recent European Commission activity in this area, this newdecision greatly enhances the antitrust risk of these types of patent settlements. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 12:58 pm by Eric J. Stock
  Together with recent European Commission activity in this area, this newdecision greatly enhances the antitrust risk of these types of patent settlements. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 12:31 am
A company can benefit from the Patent Box if it owns or exclusively licenses-in: patents granted by the UK Intellectual Property Office; inventions not granted a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office solely on national security or other grounds (but otherwise valid); patents granted by the European Patent Office; patents granted by the following countries in the European Economic Area:… [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 8:33 am
 The 908 patent had a bit of a sordid history having faced opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) resulting in an amendment so as to restrict its scope from that of the original grant. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 8:07 am
See Electronic Delivery of Search Results From the United States Patent and Trademark Office to the European Patent Office, 76 FR 82279 (December 30, 2011). [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 9:06 am
The AdvoKat At the end of June, the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) issued its reasons for the decision revoking Novozymes's European Patent 18034592 which concerned the protection of enzymes added to animal feed in the process of heat sterilization, the market for which is surprisingly large. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 9:06 am
The AdvoKat At the end of June, the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) issued its reasons for the decision revoking Novozymes's European Patent 18034592 which concerned the protection of enzymes added to animal feed in the process of heat sterilization, the market for which is surprisingly large. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 9:06 am
The AdvoKat At the end of June, the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) issued its reasons for the decision revoking Novozymes's European Patent 18034592 which concerned the protection of enzymes added to animal feed in the process of heat sterilization, the market for which is surprisingly large. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 8:44 am by Gene Quinn
" To pursue patent protection in Europe, typically one files a European patent application with the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 8:44 am by Gene Quinn
" To pursue patent protection in Europe, typically one files a European patent application with the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]