In this decision the EBoA held that sexually crossing of plants is an 'essential biological process' within the meaning of Art. 53(b) EPC. Any claim that contains a step of sexually crossing…
SK Telecom filed a patent application for a system and method for financial transactions, wherein a user was allowed to load money in his account on a host computer. The examining division refused to…
Vitreo's patent application for 'means for application of a vitreous body for the purposes of prevention and medical treatment of ophthalmic disorders' was denied by the patent office, because the…
Along with a number of other relevant innovations to the Italian IP Code, last August the Italian legislator eventually passed the long awaited implementation into Italian law of Directive 44/1998/EC…
This case concerned the issue of patentability. The Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) refused a patent application on the grounds that the invention only consisted in an automation of a…
The German Federal Court of Justice decided that a method concerning the dynamic document generation of structured documents in a client-server-environment, which is implemented by software, was not…
The G3/08 opinion concerns the long-awaited view of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) on the patentability of computer programs. The EBoA examined various issues regarding Article 112(1)(b) EPC…
According to the Advocate General Article 9 of the Biotechnology Directive does not limit the scope of protection of patents for biotechnology inventions. Nonetheless protection for DNA sequences as…
This case relates to the opposition against Amazon's famous ‘one-click’ patent. The Board ruled that what is required for obtaining patent protection for a software-implemented business method is…
