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Electronic and Digital Signatures on Assignments and Declarations to be Accepted by the EPO from 1 April 2024
Introduction Electronic and digital signatures have generally not been accepted on agreements or declarations for recording assignments or licences...
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New Procedure For Accelerating EPO Oppositions Provides Early Legal Certainty When There Is Ongoing Parallel UPC or National Litigation
Introduction The European Patent Office (EPO) offers a post-grant procedure for challenging the validity of a European patent, known as opposition....
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UPC Court of Appeal Reverses Preliminary Injunction in Harvard, 10x Genomics vs. NanoString, Reaffirms Low Standard of Proof for Validity When Granting a PI
Introduction: The Groundbreaking Preliminary Injunction The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court has overturned the first instance decision to...
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EPO Supports Startups and Sole Inventors with New Official Fee Reductions
From 1 April 2024, the EPO will introduce new official fee reductions for micro-entities and natural persons to “support small and medium-sized...
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EPO Shifts to a Softer Approach for Formal Priority Assessment
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office’s latest decision in joint cases G1/22 and G2/22 leads to a serious softening in the EPO's...
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First Preliminary Injunction Order Issued by UPC: Are Protective Letters Not So Useful After All?
Now that the first European Unified Patent Court (UPC) orders are being issued, we can start to see some of the theory that has been so widely...
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Protective Letters and the UPC: Mitigating Risks and Safeguarding Business Interests in the New European Patent System
The introduction of the new unitary patent and Unified Patent Court will significantly affect the freedom to operate of many doing business in...
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Increased Complexity in European Post-Grant Procedures Under the New Unitary Patent System: What You Need to Know
According to the European Patent Office’s Unitary Patent Guide, one of the main advantages of the unitary patent is that it reduces complexity: “The...
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The new unitary patent system makes it more important than ever for Finnish companies to actively engage with patent system
The new unitary patent system will have serious consequences for Finnish companies' freedom to operate both in Finland and abroad. As the unitary...
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The European Patent Attorney Who Cried Wolf: How To Stop the Unified Patent Court From Eating All Your Sheep
European lawyers and patent attorneys have been crying wolf over the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court for ten years, but don’t forget: at the...
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UPC Update: Representation Rules Finalised
The newly-formed Administrative Committee of the Unified Patent Court has adopted and now published the final version of the “Rules on the European...
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Review of Simulations and Other Computer-Implemented Inventions: Berggren’s Series on 2022 EPO Guideline Revisions
In this fourth article of our 2022 weekly series addressing updates to the European Patent Office’s Guidelines for Examination, we continue last...
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Mathematical Methods and Artificial Intelligence: Berggren`s Series on 2022 EPO Guideline Revisions
This is the third article in our 2022 weekly series addressing updates to the European Patent Office’s Guidelines for Examination. This week we...
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Berggren Series on 2022 EPO Guideline Revisions: Amendments to Description
In this first article in our 2022 series covering updates to the European Patent Office’s Guidelines for Examination, we look at changes made to...
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United States Applicants, What Are Your Priorities? EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Reviews Joint-Applicants Approach To Priority Claims in G1/22 & G2/22
A new referral to the European Patent Office’s Enlarged Board of Appeal has the potential to affect the validity of priority claims made in huge...
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Asymmetric exhaustion continues as UK maintains regime for EEA-wide exhaustion of IP rights post-Brexit
In June 2021 the UK government launched a public consultation on the UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime. Exhaustion is...
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The European Unified Patent Court: Coming Soon to a European Patent Near You
The Unified Patent Court is a new European Union court with jurisdiction over infringement and revocation actions for a new Unitary Patent as well as...
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