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9 Nov 2006, 1:29 am
The Office and Biofarma, on the other hand, take the view that the perception of patients matters too. [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 10:40 am
On Friday the UK Patent Office issued a Practice Note as to when and whether such inventions are patentable. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 4:28 pm
There is a new petition website up that calls for abolishing the European Patent Office. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 5:17 am
The IPKat has since received the following from the UK Patents Office's Dave Landau: "… [P]arts of the reasoning may seem a little surprising. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 1:27 am
Both authors are examiners in the European Patent Office's branch in The Hague, from which vantage point they must have seen some extraordinary misapplications of PCT procedures by ill-informed, untrained or overimaginative applicants.What it says on the back cover: "To say that the Patent Co-operation Treaty is a complex piece of legislation is like saying that the centre of the sun is hot, or that plumbing a toaster into your bath is a bad idea. [read post]
1 Nov 2006, 1:30 pm
According to Helena Spongenberg writing for EUOBSERVER/FOCUS on October 25, 2006, patent examiners at the Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO) held a "staff rally" strike on Wednesday (25 October) due to quality v. quantity concerns over the implementation of a new system in 2007 to assess the work of the examiners. [read post]
25 Oct 2006, 11:46 pm
According to a recent World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Press Release, there are now 17 countries (including the European Patent Office) allowing electronic filing of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications. [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]
21 Oct 2006, 12:11 pm
Good news for decision-browsersUK patents enthusiast and campaigner for common sense David Pearce (Eric Potter Clarkson) has written to tell the IPKat: "The Patent Office has reintroduced a browsing facility for past decisions, available here. [read post]
19 Oct 2006, 3:32 am
That said, the use of the patent system remains highly concentrated with five patent offices (United States of America, Japan, European Patent Office, Republic of Korea and China) accounting for 75% of all patent applications and 74% of all patents granted. [read post]
17 Oct 2006, 8:19 am
However, information on patents in force is not available for several offices that have relatively high numbers of patent applications, notably Argentina, Brazil, China, India and some European offices. [read post]
3 Oct 2006, 6:32 am
Rudolf Augstein, was still in office, "DER SPIEGEL" was a liberal publication promoting modern ideas against various backward ideologies. [read post]
1 Oct 2006, 10:10 am
Jean-Michel Zilliox, Director, European Patent Academy, communicates "What's new from the European Patent Academy".Technorati Tags: Patents [read post]
18 Sep 2006, 8:40 am
Employing patents as a proxy for innovation, we find support for the real as well as the financial implications of the model: (1) Technologically innovative industries exhibit greater intensity of patent creation and patent citation relative to other industries in countries with weaker creditor rights; (2) This difference of difference result is further confirmed by within-country analysis that exploits time-series changes in creditor rights, suggesting a causal effect of… [read post]
15 Sep 2006, 12:56 am
Thus, in the present case, whilst Dyson may legitimately be rewarded for its research and innovation work and claim to enjoy exclusive rights to exploit its invention, I consider that such protection may be granted, in the case of a technological innovation, only through the grant of a patent and not through a trade mark". [read post]
4 Sep 2006, 4:10 am
More on the IP wikiThe IPKat is happy to remind his readers that a new IP news wiki has been launched by Martin Farley, the IP Librarian in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's London office. [read post]
29 Aug 2006, 12:10 pm
The European Patent Office generally applies the "problem-solution approach" in order to decide whether an invention involves such an "inventive step," byidentifying the closest prior art, i.e. the most relevant prior art; determining the objective technical problem, i.e. determining, in the view of the closest prior art, the technical problem which the claimed invention addresses and successfully solves; and examining whether or not the claimed… [read post]
24 Aug 2006, 10:13 am
Under the terms of the agreement, the DKPTO (right) will reclassify U.S. patents and published patent applications according to new classifications developed either by the USPTO or by the USPTO in collaboration with the European and Japan Patent Offices in several areas of technology. [read post]
14 Aug 2006, 6:57 am
Regulations under the PCT in Japanese, Russian and Spanish The Regulations under the PCT, as in force from 1 April 2006, are now available in Japanese,Russian and Spanish at, respectively: www.wipo.int/ja/pct/texts/pdf/pct_regs.pdf www.wipo.int/ru/pct/texts/pdf/pct_regs.pdf www.wipo.int/pct/es/texts/pdf/pct_regs.pdf The texts in English, French and German are also available at, respectively www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/pdf/pct_regs.pdf www.wipo.int/pct/fr/texts/pdf/pct_regs.pdf … [read post]
18 Jul 2006, 3:37 pm
Patent and Trademark Office), Apple has six months to show that the company is using the mark in the goods and services claimed. [read post]
