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3 Jul 2013, 1:08 am by Florian Mueller
And after the appeals court suggested a stay of the proceedings, I really thought Google would realize that this is a dead patent walking and do the right thing, i.e., stop enforcement (it could always resume enforcement after the Federal Patent Court has spoken, should this patent survive against all odds).It's not Google's fault that patent litigation in Germany works the way it works and that patent offices -- in this case, the… [read post]
18 Dec 2016, 11:51 pm by Roel van Woudenberg
As gene markers were only in the process of being developed when the Directive was adopted, it did not specifically address the issue of the patentability of the products emanating from the use of gene markers.In March 2015, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (‘the Enlarged Board’) of the European Patent Office (‘the EPO’) decided that products derived from using essentially biological processes might be patentable, even if the process… [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 1:03 am
 It was headedUK Patent OfficeAvoid Patent Office Mistakes See If Your Idea Qualifies - Secure"UK Patent Office" -- it's not so often one hears those words these days. [read post]
29 May 2013, 2:41 am
The European Patent Office has found some 50% of amendments to be inadmissible, a particular problem being added subject matter. [read post]
23 Nov 2022, 4:32 am by Kluwer Patent blogger
Video conferences will become the default format of oral opposition proceedings in at the European Patent Office as of 2023. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 1:57 am
A great deal of recent debate in the patent-y parts of Europe has focused on the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or, in the quote below, ECJ) in furnishing preliminary rulings to the Central and Regional Divisions of the patent courts that will  hear disputes relating to the unitary patent -- according to the proposals for a new patent regime that are most keenly supported by those who know least about patents in… [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 4:31 pm
• The '908 patent was amended following opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
Competence and Enforcement of UPC and PMAC final decisions The PMAC, established by Article 35 UPC Agreement, can administer mediation and arbitration of disputes on European patents and European patents with unitary effect. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 10:15 am by D. Kappos
At an IP5 and WIPO heads-of-offices meeting hosted by the European Patent Office in June, the Global Dossier concept was endorsed as a forward-looking way to advance the international patent system, providing stakeholders tremendous cost savings through new efficiencies, while improving patent quality through advanced worksharing mechanisms. [read post]
23 Feb 2024, 8:18 pm by Keith Mallinson
A new competence centre within the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) will be responsible for these tasks. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 10:34 am by Florian Mueller
Licensing professionals who run patent pools or serve as expert witnesses and arbitrators are too much in demand and would probably not be interested, but at least the EUIPO would not be in a worse position to recruit talent than the European Patent Office (which is not an EU institution, and which according to rumor declined to get involved with this SEP regulation initiative). [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 1:51 am by Bart van Wezenbeek
Case date: 10 October 2019 Case number: T 0131/15 Court: European Patent Office (EPO), Board of Appeal A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 11:35 am
The European Patent Office (EPO) and Japanese Patent Office (JPO) approval rates peaked at approximately the same time but then declined more rapidly, so that in 2000 the USPTO rate was higher although by a substantial margin only under Quillen and Webster's assumptions. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 11:48 am by Florian Mueller
"What should have been made in this context is a distinction between the national parts of European patents (= EPO patents) and others. [read post]
8 Oct 2020, 5:06 am by Anastasiia Kyrylenko
Marques reported on this two-day event, briefly summarizing the main findings of the speakers, which which included high officials from the EUIPO and the European Anti-Fraud Office as well as national judges. [read post]
8 Jul 2018, 7:31 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) accorded the patents a preliminary rejection and agreed to reexamine them.link: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2008/03/warf-goes-3-3-patentsThe consumer group was beaten so badly that it changed its name. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 3:58 am
Given the target of two million patent filings per year by next year in China, this scale and growth is essential; SIPO recognises that this needs to go hand in hand with maintenance of quality and, if the outcome matches their ambition, then patent offices around the world will want to know how they did it. [read post]
Case date: 20 March 2020 Case number: T 1000/19 Court: European Patent Office (EPO), Board of Appeal A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law. [read post]