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8 Jan 2017, 5:12 am
More information, here.On 23 December 2016, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) announced, as receiving Office under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the acceptance of International applications in Chinese from 1 January 2017. [read post]
3 May 2018, 12:07 pm
Usually it is so early that the parties have just filed, or announced an intent to file, their validity challenges in other fora (mostly the Federal Patent Court, sometimes the EPO, rarely with the German Patent and Trademark Office). [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 9:39 am
This Kat learns from his ever-vigilant friend Merpel that the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI) is getting aspirant patent attorneys involved in European Patent Office (EPO) governance issues at an early stage. [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]
4 Jan 2015, 2:47 am
However for the purposes of this post the distinctions are being glossed over to focus on the issues being discussed.The statsThe ‘Facts and Figures 2014’ report from the European Patent Office (EPO) shows ‘Medical Technologies’, ‘Pharmaceuticals’ and ‘Biotech’ occupying positions 1, 9 and 10 in a ranking of technical fields by number of European patent filings. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 2:38 am
McCoy United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will open in Detroit, Michigan in July 2012. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 4:48 am
It is difficult to see how such a test would be a simple test that can be easily applied by national patent offices without, in some cases, needing evidence as to what the skilled person would have known at the priority date. [read post]
23 Nov 2023, 1:42 am
II) Novozymes HC decision: A brief overview 1) Background of the Patent and invention at issue In its decision dated September 20, 2023, the Court, setting aside the Indian Patent Office (IPO)’s order partly, pronounced that the substantive provision in S. 3(d) applies to biochemical substances in principle but Explanation to S. 3(d) becomes inapplicable to the claimed invention in Indian patent application 5326/CHENP/2008 – pertaining to the variants… [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 9:48 am
Earlier, there has been speculation that the suit may be linked to four appeals concerning supposed violations of constitutional rights at the European Patent Office. [read post]
9 Sep 2019, 4:39 am
This means using a preferred embodiment, which is the one portrayed in the drawings, to limit the scope of protection of the patent, which infringes article 69.1 of the Convention, according to which “The extent of the protection conferred by a European patent or a European patent application shall be determined by the claims. [read post]
8 Jan 2011, 2:37 pm
With respect to the desired exclusion of computer programs, the European Patent Office's approach to patentability, however, has been considered potentially problematical in New Zealand's context especially with respect to the required "technical effect" (this criterion is in fact inappropriate to exclude everything but embedded software), while substantial similarities between UK and New Zealand patent law have been recognised with… [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 10:20 am
Patentanwalt and European Patent Attorney Rainer Loritz has written to the IPKat to let him know that, a few months ago, he completed his special edition of the "Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office" of June 2012. [read post]
6 Aug 2022, 4:23 am
That, of course, does not mean to blame patent holders or the patent system. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 4:21 am
(tags: patent maintenancefees expiration) Europe's Patent Demise You are a European institution, the European Central Bank, and you seek the invalidation of what has been granted as a valid right by another European institution, the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 12:21 pm
(tags: patent maintenancefees expiration) Europe's Patent Demise You are a European institution, the European Central Bank, and you seek the invalidation of what has been granted as a valid right by another European institution, the European Patent Office (EPO). [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 11:34 pm
The original answers in German of Professor Broß can be found at the bottom of this article.) 1) ‘The questions raised by the constitutional complaint on democratic and legal deficits of the European Patent Convention and the European Patent Organisation which is based on it, as well as the subsequent Unified Patent Court, can only be understood and answered in an appropriate manner, if one looks more closely at the structure of the… [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 12:55 am
Both reminded me of my time as a reviewer for the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.The most interesting book which just missed Journal inclusion was "Trade Secrets: Intellectual Piracy and the Origins of American Industrial Power" by Doron S. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 1:59 am
Rejecting the application before him, which was for a system of using an automatic number plate recognition system to detect cloned vehicle number plates, he considered that the current European Patent Office guidelines [see earlier IPKat post here] would suggest that the cited prior art should be taken into account. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 10:15 am
ZTE; in a way, it already got a little bit better after the European Commission took action against Samsung and Motorola. [read post]
21 Sep 2013, 4:00 am
In my opinion, the European Comm [read post]
