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15 Aug 2014, 8:54 am by Gene Quinn
To facilitate electronic file sharing between IP offices, such as the sharing relating to the priority document exchange (PDX) program and the program by which U.S. search results are delivered to the European Patent Office (EPO), USPTO is proposing to amend its rules of practice to include a specific provision by which an applicant can authorize the USPTO to give a foreign IP office access to all or part of the file contents of an unpublished U.S.… [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 3:12 pm
  It deals in brief with the European Patent Office's controversial decision to share out a large sum of money, effectively its operating surplus, with its employees. [read post]
14 May 2020, 8:52 am by Roel van Woudenberg
This negative effect does not apply to European patents granted before 1 July 2017 and European patent applications which were filed before that date and are still pending. [read post]
3 May 2012, 9:33 am by European Patent Office
" The European Patent Office (EPO) calls it deceitful, characterizing it as "subterfuge," and further pointing out that "their services have no legal effect whatsoever. [read post]
18 May 2021, 4:15 am by Ed White
Filings at the European Patent Office (EPO) may have dipped just 0.7% last year but findings from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) revealed a 3% drop in filings globally. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 3:00 am
It takes place on Thursday 16 July and will be held in the eye of the storm, as it were, in the Munich headquarters of the European Patent Office. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 11:40 am by Florian Mueller
As the former director of the European NoSoftwarePatents campaign I always find it shocking what kinds of patents the European Patent Office (EPO) grants despite the exclusion of "programs for computers as such" from the scope of patentable inventions according to Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC).Post-grant reviews often do away with those patents, but rarely ever on the basis of Art. 52 EPC… [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 12:07 pm by Gene Quinn
Authorize the USPTO to Transmit Search to the EPO The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued an Advisory to the patent bar, reminding everyone about regulations of the European Patent Office that require search results to be filed with the EPO without delay after the search results are made available to applicants. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 12:07 pm by Gene Quinn
Authorize the USPTO to Transmit Search to the EPO The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued an Advisory to the patent bar, reminding everyone about regulations of the European Patent Office that require search results to be filed with the EPO without delay after the search results are made available to applicants. [read post]
2 May 2008, 10:10 am
  They include more comments regarding the proposed rules regarding Markush claims, a new Patent Prosecution Highway with the European Patent Office, and a pilot program where patent applicants would be able to have an interview to discuss a proposed first office action with the examiner before the action issues.Update:  We were remiss in not mentioning the new written description guidelines. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 10:02 am by Kluwer UPC News blogger
Kluwer UPC News bloggerPresident Benoit Battistelli of the European Patent Office hopes the United Kingdom will stay in the Unitary Patent system despite the Brexit vote of 23 June 2016. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 8:32 am
Many inventors, exhausted from defending the validity of their patent repeatedly, will be forced to abandon their patents.The bill also proposes changing from the American "first-to-invent" system, which favors true innovators, to a European-style "first-to-file" regime, which favors the winners of a sprint to the patent office. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 8:06 pm
have to juggle with their own domestic patent litigation system, the often complex and arcane proceedings before the European Patent Office, and a whole set of new ifs, whens and maybes that characterise the Unified Patent Court and what is now the 16th draft of its Rules. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 11:23 am by Stephen Albainy-Jenei
The European Patent Office (“EPO”) recently announced that most of its fees will increase by between 5 and 8 per cent from April 1, 2010. [read post]
29 Sep 2019, 9:09 am
Hot off the press is a joint report by the European Patent Office (EPO) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) entitled IPR-intensive industries and economic performance in the European Union. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 2:00 am
Amazon.com have suffered another setback in their struggle with the European Patent Office to get a European patent granted for their 'one-click' internet shopping invention (some history and commentary on the subject here and here). [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 10:39 am by Stephen Albainy-Jenei
European Patent Office Decides Divisional Applications Are Abusive There have been mutterings and papers for some time about... [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 6:13 am by Mark Reichel
On Monday, and in two separate decisions, the European Patent Office announced several revisions to the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention ("EPC"). [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 11:49 pm by Neil Wilkof
She joined the European Patent Office (EPO) in 1989 as an examiner in the fields of metallurgy and general mechanics. [read post]