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Does G 1/24 offer a way out of the EPO’s inescapable added matter trap?

EPO practice on added matter is famously strict, with many patents being revoked using this principle every year. Particularly pernicious during EPO opposition proceedings is the “inescapable trap” –…

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Two years after its launch, the Unified Patent Court has moved from promise to practice. What once looked like a procedural experiment has become a credible, fast, and intellectually rigorous forum…

 To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other blogs, we regularly provide an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs.  With autumn now…

For months, commentary on Boehringer has flourished across the European patent community. Yet amid the noise, the fundamental question—what the decision truly changes in the logic of injunctions…

After two years, the UPC's track record concerning its decisions has been rather good so far. Although, of course, in each specific case one of the parties will disagree with the decision, the…

At the AIPPI, irony sometimes writes itself. In 2020, when the Association launched its essay competition, I submitted a paper on compulsory licenses and legitimacy — optimistically entitled “COVID…

In late September, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Germany’s Munich Regional Court issued the world’s first “anti-interim license” injunction orders (AILIs). These…

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