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G1/25 hearing: turning point or status quo?

Mark Gallagher is a co-author of this pieceG 1/25 addresses a particularly controversial feature of EPO practice: the requirement to adapt the description. The long-anticipated hearing on G 1/25 took…

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"Gedanken ohne Inhalt sind leer, Anschauungen ohne Begriffe sind blind." — Immanuel Kant (Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.) Recent reactions to my earlier…

Applications in the UPC for Requests to Produce Evidence under r.190 RoP are rare beasts. An Order following one such application was made on 14 April 2026 by the Brussels LD (full panel) in the case…

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — often attributed to Napoleon, and now, perhaps, to anyone still asking for a stay without a strategy.For years, European patent litigation…

I have long intended to write a piece about Artificial Intelligence (AI), but this seems to be one of these subjects where the world turns faster than my ability to process it. Nonetheless, here we…

As far as the authors are aware, there is, as yet, no dedicated blog to plant varieties.  Therefore the following post has been prepared for the Kluwer Patents Blog in the expectation that some of…

A ball may reach the line and still not cross it. Jurisdiction obeys the same logic.The order delivered on 13 March 2026 by the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court in Adobe Inc, OpenAI LP &…

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