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12 Apr 2012, 10:37 am
Good news for techie folk who speak English but not Portuguese -- or Portuguese but not English: IP Tango reports the freshly-announced cooperation deal between the European Patent Office and its Brazilian counterpart will address language issues as well as the social stuff (better coffee for the EPO cafeteria?) [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 11:10 am
What stresses are placed on patent offices, and how are offices addressing these stresses? [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 12:58 pm
 As devotees of the Amerikat's posts on the negotiations towards a unitary European patent will know, in the UK we generally consider that bifurcation is a VERY BAD THING.] [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 4:20 am by Lawrence Higgins
Students in the patent program can expect to draft and file a patent application and respond to an office action. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 12:05 pm by Doug Isenberg
The European Union’s competition office opened two antitrust cases against Motorola Mobility for possible patent abuses following complaints by two rivals, Microsoft and Apple. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:22 pm by Doug Isenberg
The moves make Microsoft the first major technology player to shift a business arm out of Germany over fears potential court rulings on patents could harm business. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 3:56 pm
, I published my first novel (The Schmetterling Effect) on Amazon on 15 March 2012 (the same day that Rhoda published her book) and that the hero is a male English patent attorney who falls head over heels for an Irish trade mark attorney who he meets in her office in Dublin? [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 5:05 am
 On the very same date, but at 17:45 hours, Pool Angel Tomás SL applied to the Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas (the Spanish Patent and Trade Mark Office, OEPM) for registration of the word mark RIZO’S for goods in Class 28 [Merpel says, I think I know what's coming ...]. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 7:37 am by Jeff Shieh
A new fee schedule for the European Patent Office (EPO) comes into effect on April 1, 2012. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 2:59 am
Thus for example, taking a British perspective, we see that the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union are binding on all national courts, including the Supreme Court; the Supreme Court's decisions bind the High Court; those of the High Court bind the Patents County Court. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 2:56 am
While Hamburg hosts the Bucerius, Munich hosts the Serious, in the form of a forthcoming conference, "US Patent Reform: Consequences for European Practitioners", on 3 and 4 April. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 1:09 pm by Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
Facebook gobbles up trademarks on variations of its name A search of the trademark database maintained by the US Patent and Trademark Office shows Facebook with 73 active trademarks, many of them covering different uses of the words “Facebook” and “like. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 1:58 am
The bifurcation issue Besides Articles 6 to 8, the issue that can divide some European patent practitioners the most is the issue of bifurcation. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 1:52 am
Patent law, on the other hand, has been largely untouched by European legislation, so the opportunities for reference are less. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 8:33 pm by Andrew W. Torrance
  Although the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent claims to such products generated by in vivo conversion of ingested drugs, and courts have noted the eligibility of such products as patentable subject matter, never has a United States court of final appeal upheld such a patent claim as valid, enforceable, and infringed. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 12:30 am by Volker 'Falk' Metzler
The European Patent Office, which will grant EU patents, has its headquarters here. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 6:20 am
Referring to his earlier post, David reports on the mysterious reappearance of the European Patent Office's handbook on quality procedures. [read post]