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18 Jun 2007, 7:53 pm
It has two bodies, the European Patent Office and the Administrative Council, which supervises the Office's activities. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 9:44 am
The number of patent applications received by the European Patent Office reached 207 300 in 2006, the EPO announced today. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 9:01 am
Among the choicest features in this issue are the following: * "If the kids are united" by Florian Koempel - an original and offbeat examination of digital rights management issues as they affect collecting societies, by the Legal Counsel to British Music Industry (abstract here);* "The Trilateral Cooperation" by seasoned patent expert Philip Grubb, reviewing the peaks and troughs of attempts by the US, Japanese and European Patent Offices to… [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 10:47 pm
The Patents Act 1977 s.76 reads, in relevant part: "(3) No amendment of the specification of a patent shall be allowed... if it - (a) results in the specification disclosing additional matter,or (b) extends the protection conferred by the patent".Article 123 of the European Patent Convention reads:"(1) The conditions under which a European patent application or a European patent may be amended in… [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]
15 Jun 2007, 4:17 am
The European Patent Office has published Decision T 0154/04 - 3.5.01 of the Boards of Appeal concerning European Patent application 94912949. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 11:20 am
(That's Vienna, Austria, home of UNOV -- the United Nations Office at Vienna -- not Vienna, Virgina, headquarters of Space Adventures...) [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 5:37 am
These patents, nine from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and one from the European Patent Office, focus on technological breakthroughs that help improve productivity for reviewing massive amounts of electronic data. [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 10:31 pm
All four applications were rejected as being schemes, rules and methods for playing a game and thus not inventions within the European Patent Convention, under Article 52 of which"(2) The following in particular shall not be regarded as inventions within the meaning of paragraph 1 …(c) schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers… [read post]
10 Jun 2007, 4:01 pm
This is a mammoth week for trade mark litigation before the European Court of Justice. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 1:41 am
As regards the question whether, or to what extent, the appellant can be represented and assisted by a patent agent, the Court misinterpreted Article 19 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 11:53 am
Christopher Heath, of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, Prof. [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 4:48 pm
Says the IPKat, what seems to be happening is that, while in other countries it is the law of trade marks/passing off that protects acts of (alleged) unfair competition, in the Netherlands this seems to be the task of copyright - especially since it's not so long since the Dutch declared that you can have copyright in a scent.Other interesting bits in this issue includes an encomium for the European Patent Litigation Agreement by Professor Anthony Arnull and Lord Justice Robin… [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 11:31 pm
The European Patent Office should be obliged to present regular reports to the European Parliament. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 10:50 am
The European Patent Office is 29 today. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 4:33 am
If there is expertevidence it should be by a single, joint expert.The IPKat says, who will be so bold as to make this demand for patent litigation too? [read post]
29 May 2007, 6:18 am
This application is subject to the limitations that the mark"... shall not prevent a person who is entered on the list of professional representatives before the Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) in pursuance of the Community Trade Mark from using the title "European Trade Mark Attorney".... [read post]
26 May 2007, 4:23 pm
"As usual, if you know of any interesting European decision that you'd like to see reported in the ETMR, email the IPKat here and he'll see what he can do to bring that about.The May 2007 issue of the same publisher's bimonthly European Copyright and Design Reports should not go unnoticed either. [read post]
25 May 2007, 3:52 pm
An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules. [read post]
24 May 2007, 2:17 am
European applications in Welsh will be permitted by the coming into force of the revised European Patent Convention, EPC 2000, no later than 13 December 2007. [read post]
