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6 Mar 2023, 6:24 am
The Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office supports the initiative of important European companies who’ve requested to do something about declining patent quality at the EPO. [read post]
25 Oct 2006, 6:32 am
Earlier this year I had reported on a strike day of the Examiners of the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
29 Dec 2013, 10:26 pm
The system is managed by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the USPTO. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 10:39 am
The European Patent Office is already pursuing its own review of the European equivalent of the U.S. rubber banding patent, at the request of Samsung and others. [read post]
23 Oct 2022, 8:50 am
Next year’s Patent Cup is scheduled to take place at a yet-to-be-determined European location. [read post]
11 Apr 2021, 8:31 pm
In November, the Dusseldorf Regional Court decided to refer to the European Court of Justice certain questions of component-level licensing of standard-essential patents (SEPs) as well as questions regarding the application of the Huawei v. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 2:35 pm
From Martin Kirk (a senior patent attorney in the DSM Expert Centre, Urmond) comes news of some fascinating European Patent Office determinations regarding the legal status of email messages that have been transmitted via the internet: do they constitute public disclosures or not? [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 10:31 am
In early 2006, the European Commission outlined a European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA), a predecessor to the UPC Agreement. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 6:44 am
Coming on the heels of the 2011 America Invents Act, which is substantially revamping our own patent system and infrastructure, the Unitary Patent System will also bring greater harmony between American and European patent laws, improving trans-Atlantic trade, enhancing collaboration between our patent offices, and providing a more consistent global marketplace. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 4:24 am
A European Union directive banning the patenting of inventions whose commercialization violates public order or "morality" has been used to invalidate a patent involving human embryonic stem cells. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 10:15 am
This week in Other Barks & Bites: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) notifies 61,000 trademark applicants of a data breach; USPTO Director Kathi Vidal admonishes VLSI; and the European Patent Office (EPO) announces a 2.5% increase in patent applications. [read post]
30 Jun 2023, 10:15 am
This week in Other Barks & Bites: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) notifies 61,000 trademark applicants of a data breach; USPTO Director Kathi Vidal admonishes VLSI; and the European Patent Office (EPO) announces a 2.5% increase in patent applications. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 7:11 am
As noted within the recent European Patent Office (EPO) press release (link below), "The European Patent Organisation's members now include all 27 EU member states plus Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 12:03 am
Applicants re-register patents covering China or the UK, (including European Patents designating UK) and they are granted without substantive examination. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 9:26 am
PROP. 186 ], LBE wrote in the year 2005:In recent patent reform proposals made by the Federal Trade Commission [FTC] and theNational Academy of Sciences [NAS], there has been discussion that the United StatesPatent and Trademark Office [USPTO] might have a high grant rate of patents comparedto rates of other industrialized countries, including Japan and European countries. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 8:10 am
There is also an Explanatory Memorandum.The European Patent Litigation Certificate is the qualification that a European Patent Attorney will be able to obtain in order to have the same rights to conduct litigation at the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as a legal practitioner in a member state which is a party to the Unified Patent Court Agreement (according to Article 48 of that Agreement). [read post]
5 Nov 2023, 12:56 am
In a similar vein, while the initial proposals from the European Commission provide that no more than one examiner (in a three-member panel) should come from a national patent office that has made use of the exemption to not examine the conditions of Article 3(c) and 3(d), the JURI Committee intends to tighten this requirement to completely exclude any examiners from national patent offices that do not examine the Article 3(c) and 3(d) conditions. [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 9:12 am
Alison Brimelow, President-elect of the European Patent Office, noted recently that there were five million patents in force worldwide in 2004 and that they reached that point at an exponential rate. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 4:03 pm
There are, however, some paragraphs that reflects the position of the European Union with regards to nanoscience and nanotechnologies.For example, the action plan:Recommends that lists of ingredients in consumer products identify the addition of manufactured nanoparticulate material;Regrets the fact that the patenting of nanoscience and nanotechnology inventions in Europe is developing slowly; calls on the EU to create a nanoscience and nanotechnology patent monitoring… [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 1:33 am
By far, the US has the most relaxed attitude toward software patents, and the US patent office grants more software patents than any other office. [read post]
