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10 Nov 2008, 6:54 am
Put this together with the recent request by Alison Brimelow, European Patent Office President for a Review by the Enlarged Board, and you know that large changes are afoot. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 2:57 pm
Most lawyers don't keep a crystal ball in their office, but if pressed, some will take a crack at forecasting the future. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 1:00 pm
They now say:"The Court of Appeal did not give the UK-IPO leave to appeal to the House of Lords because in its view it would be premature for the House of Lords to decide what computer programs are patentable before the issue has been considered by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 5:49 am
Team member David's two posts (here and here) on the referral of questions on software patenting to an Enlarged Board of the European Patent Office have already attracted almost 50 responses, and more are still coming in. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 4:37 am
Jung-Sik Koh, Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO); Alison Brimelow, President of the European Patent Office (EPO); Takashi Suzuki, Commissioner of the Japan Patent Office (JPO); Tian Lipu, Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO); and Jon Dudas, Director of the USPTO, adopted a unified vision statement for the initiative: "The elimination... [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 3:57 am
Political flurries and potential trade mark wars (Afro-IP) House arrest for DVD pirate (Afro-IP) Spain Government to publish ‘Manual of Best Practices in the Prosecution of Infringing Activities’ (Class 46) Ukraine Trade marks database to be accessible free of charge (Class 46) United Arab Emirates Limitations on trademark protection (International Law Office) United Kingdom Financing creative businesses (IP finance) UK… [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 11:52 pm
A little bird has just whispered this tale into the IPKat's ear:"I was recently at a gathering of the great and the good where it was disclosed to me, on the quiet, that the recent hike of the European Patent Office (EPO) excess claim fee has caught the office out. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 6:12 am
Topics featured in this issue include the following:* Gillian Davies, formerly of the European Patent Office and now a barrister in Hogarth Chambers, summarises significant decisions of the EPO boards of appeal in 2007;* Birgit Clark (Boult Wade Tennant) discusses the German Bundesgerichtshof COOL WATER/ICY COLD decision on the legitimacy or otherwise of allusive product names as a means of comparative advertising for imitative perfumes;* Marianne Schaffner and Sandra… [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 3:41 pm
According to "Tips & tricks for searching East Asian patent databases" by Irene Schellner, European Patent Office, 27 October 2008:more than 50% of the patent applications published worldwide are written in Japanese, Chinese or KoreanKIPO receives 4th highest number of IP applications in the world (after US, JP and CN)every year more than 350 000 patent applications are filed in Japanbetween 1997 and 2007, domestic filings in… [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 4:47 am
Patent and Trademark Office as the Receiving Office now have another option for their selection of an International Search Authority (ISA) -- IP Australia, the Australian Patent Office. [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 1:37 pm
Patenting life sciences and today’s challenges in patent law and practice’ - Belgium: (The SPC Blog), 17-18 November: American Conference Institute (ACI) intensive course on pharmaceutical and biotech patent opinion writing – Boston: (Patent Baristas), (Patent Docs), 19-20 November: American Conference Institute (ACI) conference ‘Paragraph IV on trial’ – New York: (Patent Docs), 8-9… [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 11:15 pm
A Scandalous Trade in Xenophobia The United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected an application by Alexandre Batlle of Miami Beach last year to trademark the word “Obama Bin Laden. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 3:12 am
(Spicy IP) Section 3(d) Patents Actand utility model (Spicy IP) The polymorphism of trade mark dilution in India (Spicy IP) Montenegro IP Office of Montenegro functional since 28 May 2008 - term for validation is 28 November 2008 (RelatIP) Nigeria Nigeria textile industry under threat from China fakes (Afro-IP) Norway Use on foreign-language website fails to save Munch mark (Class 46) Poland Polish minister of sport's plans… [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 6:04 pm
The issue raised on this appeal requires us to consider the reach of the exclusion of "programs for computers" from patentable inventions, a topic which is inherently difficult and on which there is apparently inconsistent authority domestically and in the European Patent Office ("EPO"). [read post]
31 Oct 2008, 11:53 am
You can separately subscribe to the Pharma & Biotech edition of the IP Think Tank Global Week in Review by subscribing by email, or selecting ‘all posts’ or ‘Pharma, Biotech & Chem’ for the RSS option at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: Oxytrol (Oxybutynin) - US: Watson files patent infringement lawsuit against Barr over application to market generic Oxytrol; Barr challenges Oxytrol… [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 7:00 pm
(b) the President of the European Patent Office may refer a point of law to the Enlarged Board of Appeal where two Boards of Appeal have given different decisions on that question.The last time that questions on the subject of software patents were proposed (by Lord Justice Jacob, after his decision in Aerotel in October 2006), the then President replied that there was "insufficient legal basis for a referral under Article 112(1)(b) EPC. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 4:26 pm
“The European Patent Office (EPO) has asked its ultimate legal authority to look at the European Patent Convention (EPC) and issue advice on the patentability of software. [read post]
27 Oct 2008, 1:34 pm
As noted in the USPTO announcement (link below), the DKPTO joins the Japan Patent Office, the United Kingdom Patent Office, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the Korean Intellectual Property Office, IP Australia, and the European Patent Office as PPH program members. [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 12:03 am
Sandoz, Inc (Law360) (Hal Wegner) (Patently-O) (Patent Prospector) (PLI) Cipro (Ciprofloxacin) - US: CAFC finds no antitrust liability for Hatch-Waxman reverse payment settlements: In Re Ciproflaxacin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation (IP Law Observer) Lescol (Fluvastatin) - US: Mylan confirms first-to-file patent challenge to Lescol by Novartis (SmartBrief) Levaquin (Levofloxacin) - UK: Levofloxacin SPC valid: Generics (UK) Ltd v Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co Ltd… [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 6:54 pm
As a background to the questions, Ms Brimelow states:"Even in the 1960s, as the founding fathers of the European Patent Office drafted a new European patent law, it was clear that the patentability of computer programs was a complex issue. [read post]
