Readers will not be surprised on reading that the new Spanish Patent Act, which is due to come into force on 1 April 2017, establishes a remuneration right in favour of employees who have made an…
The assessment of inventive step is a legal assessment which can be reviewed by the Supreme Court through what is known as the "cassational appeal". The Supreme Court confirms the validity and…
This month of October will fade away, leaving behind it the "Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on Provisional Application", done at Brussels on 1 October 2015, the purpose of which …
One of the challenges raised by today's inventions, which are often the result of research efforts carried out by teams comprised of scientists based in multiple jurisdictions, is how to comply with…
Article 118 of the EPC (entitled "Unity of the European patent application or European patent") states that:
"[...] the text of the application or patent shall be uniform for all designated…
On 3 June 2015, the High Court of Justice ("Tribunal Superior de Justicia") of Madrid handed down a judgment which has alerted everyone of the need to have robust systems in place to make sure that a…
One of the tricky consequences of Article 64 of the European Patent Convention ("EPC"), which establishes that the European patent is immediately enforceable after its publication, and Article 99,…
One of the issues which will be discussed at the next annual meeting of AIPPI, due to take place in Rio de Janeiro in October 2015, is Q244, entitled "Inventorship of multinational inventions."
In…
On 25 July 2015, the Spanish Official State Gazette published the text of Act 24/2015, of 24 July 2015, on Patents ("New Patents Act" or "the new Law"), which is due to come into force on 1 April…
