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15 Jun 2022, 4:46 am by Frantzeska Papadopoulou
This office can be inspired by the functioning of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market and the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (EU 386/2012) and should be aligned with the EU IP action plan. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 11:20 pm by Florian Mueller
The Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) strives to apply those rules, which clearly enhance its ability to address anticompetitive conduct by gatekeepers like Apple, prudently and judiciously. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 5:11 am by Florian Mueller
And that license will have to be a global portfolio license even though the technical merits are established only with a view to a UK patent (typically, the UK part of a patent granted by the European Patent Office) and the injunction bans the accused product(s) only from the UK market. [read post]
Every year the Japan Patent Office (JPO) publishes a status report in spring, and this year’s report (the “Status Report 2022”) was published on March 30, 2022. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 12:22 pm by Holly Brezee
An applicant may file a patent application in an individual country, but it is generally more efficient to file through the European Patent Office (EPO) when the applicant wants patent protection in multiple EU countries. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 7:19 am by Florian Mueller
About a week before Huawei's major IP event that took place earlier today, the German Patent and Trademark Office issued a press release on China having overtaken the U.S. in terms of the number of digital communications patent filings, which is perfectly consistent with European Patent Office statistics. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 10:47 pm by Florian Mueller
The trend reversal has occurred, and Apple can't stop it, but it obviously keeps trying to slow it down and minimize its impact.Patent counts: not the perfect metric, yet more reliable than unempirical opinion pieces On Friday I commented on certain patent filing statistics by the European Patent Office and the German Patent and Trademark Office. [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 12:14 pm by Steve Brachmann
Patent and Trademark Office announces that it has established a pilot program to prioritize examination of climate change patent applications; the Ninth Circuit remands a trademark cancellation claim to the district court after finding an improper application of Star-Kist’s precedent on standing; and Advocate General Szpunar tells the Court of Justice of the European Union that Amazon has not made a use of Louboutin trademarks under the meaning of EU law by… [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 12:59 am by Florian Mueller
The German PTO's annual report doesn't list particular filers, but fortunately the European Patent Office (EPO)--whose report equally attests to China's and Sweden's incredible achievements--provides a list of the top 10 filers in the field of digital communications (click on the image to enlarge):Key takeaways and observationsDespite Trump's trade war that the Biden Administration continues, Huawei is unstoppable--and the undisputed number one in… [read post]
2 Jun 2022, 5:19 am by Bart van Wezenbeek (Millipede)
Case date: 21 January 2022 Case number: T 0077/18 Court: European Patent Office (EPO), Board of Appeal A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. [read post]
31 May 2022, 12:38 pm by Giorgio Luceri
The Kluwer Trademark Blog provides a summary of the background and outcome of the above decisions.In 2021, the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) launched the IP Register in Blockchain, laying the foundation for a distributed platform that will enable services that benefit from a secure, fast and direct connection between IP offices and rights holders. [read post]
31 May 2022, 7:55 am by Bob Ambrogi
Assuming her seat as NDA president is Igor Olenich, firm-wide patent docket manager at Morrison & Foerster and one of the original founders of the NDA. [read post]
23 May 2022, 3:35 am by Kluwer Patent blogger
The creation of a dedicated administrative tribunal could be a way to improve the settlement of labour disputes at the European Patent Office. [read post]
20 May 2022, 8:00 am by Mridu Katoch
The European Patent Office accepts applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and European Patent Convention (EPC). [read post]
19 May 2022, 6:33 am by Florian Mueller
Thomas Kuehnen ("Kühnen" in German), the Presiding Judge of one of the two patent-specialized divisions of the Dusseldorf Higher Regional Court (regional appeals court) had outlined in an academic article.Presiding Judge Sabine Klepsch of the lower Dusseldorf court's 4c Civil Chamber severed that antitrust counterclaim from the patent infringement action that gave rise to a referral to the European Court of Justice (which never resulted in a decision as… [read post]
18 May 2022, 12:30 am by Christopher Dumont (Crowell)
Although the Court of Enterprises did not make a decision thereon, it explicitly acknowledged the guidance of the case law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office for the interpretation of the concept “due care” which is necessary condition for the restoration of priority rights. [read post]
17 May 2022, 12:20 am by Kluwer Patent blogger
The industrial actions at the European Patent Office, which were organised by trade union SUEPO with the support of the Central Staff Committee (CSC), go into their fourth month next week. [read post]
11 May 2022, 11:16 pm by Kluwer Patent blogger
For example, the UP is of course more expensive than a traditional European patent that has been nationally validated, for example, only in Germany, France and Italy – the top three validation countries of traditional European patents– and a UP is roughly as expensive as a traditional European patent validated in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. [read post]
11 May 2022, 2:32 pm by Giorgio Luceri
Foss Patents comments on Epic's PI motion. [read post]
10 May 2022, 4:25 am by Emma Snell
The European Commission, the E.U. [read post]