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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]
5 May 2015, 7:00 am
The “notorious computer” of the European Patent Office offers a viable option for reaching this objective. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 6:45 am
SABIC will consider IP counsel/Patent Attorneys with admission to a recognized patent bar (USPTO, European Patent Office, etc.). [read post]
12 May 2010, 2:25 pm
Today, the Enlarged Board of Appeals of the European Patent Office (EPO) issued the long-awaited G 3/08 opinion that considered software patentability standards under the European Patent Convention (EPC). [read post]
29 Jan 2023, 3:33 am
Based on the above, the Patent and Trademark Office was thus not obliged to examine the question of double protection ex officio. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 9:40 pm
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) will implement a one-year long pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program starting in September 2008. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 1:40 pm
Patent and Trademark Office has shown a keen interest in better understanding policy concerns and the needs of business stakeholders in the area of trade secrets (see our coverage of both USPTO symposia here and here) against the backdrop of a new federal law, the EU’s IP office is also stepping […] [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 1:40 pm
Patent and Trademark Office has shown a keen interest in better understanding policy concerns and the needs of business stakeholders in the area of trade secrets (see our coverage of both USPTO symposia here and here) against the backdrop of a new federal law, the EU’s IP office is also stepping […] [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 5:35 am
.] 'Patents are granted too easily', suggested Wim Van der Eijk, Principal Director of the International Legal Affairs and Patent Law Department at the European patent Office (EPO). 'We need to have a more critical look, and steer policy in the direction of less, but stronger patents'. [...] [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 8:41 am
The IP5 is comprised of five patent offices, including the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO), the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), and the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO). [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 5:14 am
Hubertus Schacht.Early last year, the lower Munich court decided to leapfrog its appeals court, the Munich Higher Regional Court, which like its counterparts in the other major circuits for German patent infringement litigation (Karlsruhe, which is the appeals court for patent cases originating from Mannheim, and Dusseldorf) imposed a rather exacting requirement: a patent-in-suit had to be affirmed in an adversarial proceeding (i.e., a nullity case before the Federal… [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 10:21 am
The European Patent Office received 193 460 applications last year, an increase of 2.5% compared to 2021 and a new record. [read post]
6 Mar 2021, 8:02 pm
Vanessa Stainthorpe of HGF Limited will use case studies to help recognise risky practices in portfolio management and outline what can be done when something goes wrong, explain the circumstances in which patent applications can (and can't) be restored, for example using the European Patent Office's further processing and reinstatement procedures, discuss recent case law decisions, and give practical advice on how to avoid losing valuable… [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 9:15 pm
Adam Hines of HGF and Christy Lea and Sabing Lee of Knobbe Martens will compare and contrast mechanisms for challenging patents in both Europe and the U.S., and in particular, will focus on opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO) along with proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in the U.S. [read post]
15 Dec 2018, 8:47 pm
Tull of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will guide patent practitioners in overcoming the challenges when seeking patent protection for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) inventions, and examine the new guidelines from the European Patent Office (EPO) and compare the EU approach with the U.S. approach. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 8:11 pm
Tull of Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner will guide patent practitioners in overcoming the challenges when seeking patent protection for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) inventions, examine the new guidelines from the European Patent Office (EPO), and compare the EU approach with the U.S. approach. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 9:43 pm
The CJEU have recently issued a judgement in Georgetown University v Dutch Patent Office which attempts to clarify these issues. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 12:10 am
Press Communiqué of 22 June 2021 on decision G 4/19 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal22 June 2021The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued decision G 4/19 (Double patenting) today, in which it held that a European patent application can be refused by reason of the prohibition on double patenting.BackgroundThe Enlarged Board of Appeal is the highest judicial authority under the European… [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 9:59 pm
Patent and Trademark Office responded to the Supreme Court's Diamond v. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 9:59 pm
By Donald Zuhn -- On Tuesday, the European Patent Office announced that it received 243,000 applications in 2011, which constituted a 3% increase from the 237,500 applications the EPO received in 2010. [read post]
