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15 Sep 2015, 1:46 am
Last week, the TechRights blog published a letter by the head of the EPO's investigative unit to Elizabeth Hardon, the chairwoman of the Munich chapter of the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO), summoning her to a hearing last Thursday. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 2:07 am
There was a certain competition between the EU Commission, which favoured the creation of a court within the European Court of Justice, and the European Patent Office, which pushed for the so-called European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) between the countries of the European Patent Convention. [read post]
30 Apr 2008, 9:42 pm
By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, Neuralstem, Inc. announced that the European Patent Office had granted European Patent No. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 1:10 pm
Patent and Trademark Office — a separate search service when introduced in 2006 and recently integrated with Google Search — Google has added patents filed with the European Patent Office. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 1:36 am
If somewhat giddying, this approach does have the distinct benefit of bringing this aspect of UK law closer to the European Patent Office, although leaving (as he had to do) the question of how you determine what technical effect is relevant. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 7:05 am
Earlier this month, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) each rejected two patent applications that designated an artificial intelligence named DABUS as the inventor. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 2:21 am
The opposition division of the European Patent Office indicated in a document filed in July that independent claim 1 of EP2122678 does not meet the patentability requirement of novelty. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 9:55 pm
Patent and Trademark Office and European Patent Office announced the launch of a new website regarding the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) initiative. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 9:25 am
A press release from the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) in the UK today affirms its position on computer software patents in the light of the European Patent Office's Enlarge Board referral in Case G3/08 (see earlier post here). [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 5:55 am
Back in October of 2010, the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office announced the launch of a joint program designed to harmonize their patent classification systems. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 11:54 am
On October 25, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office have agreed to merge the classifications systems for the two offices. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 3:41 pm
According to "Tips & tricks for searching East Asian patent databases" by Irene Schellner, European Patent Office, 27 October 2008:more than 50% of the patent applications published worldwide are written in Japanese, Chinese or KoreanKIPO receives 4th highest number of IP applications in the world (after US, JP and CN)every year more than 350 000 patent applications are filed in Japanbetween 1997 and 2007, domestic filings in… [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 10:43 am
According to the European Patent Office there were 4,088 patent applications from Italy in 2010 and 1,436 from Spain compared to 27,354 from Germany, 9,530 from France, 6,742 [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 10:01 am
As a follow-up to yesterday's post on a continuing strike by European Patent Office examiners, I went to watch today's Munich demonstration. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 2:04 am
Readers of this weblog will not fail to have noticed the quantity of blogposts on the legal, administrative and social issues that have turned the European Patent Office (EPO), once a byword for expertise, efficiency and excellence, into the setting for a modern soap opera in which the three 'e's are replaced by the three 'p's: power-politics, point-scoring and paranoia.By recognising both the "social unease" that exists in the EPO and by… [read post]
4 May 2012, 6:29 pm
In a recent ruling the European Patent Office has ruled that one of IPCom’s patents in question is invalid and in doing so declared a victory for Nokia and HTC. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 11:28 pm
Leaving her saucy decision to the side, she though she’d paw through the 2013 financial statements of the European Patent Office. [read post]
29 May 2020, 2:32 am
Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO"), European Patent Office ("EPO") and the Intellectual Property Office ("IPO") have all published statistics on patenting activity in 2019. [read post]
26 May 2015, 2:19 am
Having been returned to blogging duty, Merpel has turned her attention to the finances of the European Patent Office. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 2:46 pm
Following the European Patent Office Board of Appeal decision T 680/08, and after reading an extrapolation of the reasoning from this decision that has been proposed elsewhere, I have been wondering about the possibility of whether the content of a divisional application could be cited against its own parent (or vice versa). [read post]
