Procedure

On 27 September 2012, a new consolidated version of the Draft Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Document 14268/12) was (finally) published. The consolidated text includes some of the amendments…

In the wake of the UPC Agreement having been entered into under the Danish presidency, there was widespread euphoria about the many, potentially positive, aspects of Danish SME litigants being able…

After widespread reform in late 2010 (previously reported here), the Patents County Court (the "PCC") is increasingly becoming a court of choice in intellectual property matters in England and Wales,…

The Board, exercising its power under Article 12(4) RPBA, decided not to admit the patent proprietor's (appellant) main request in appeal, because he did not at all respond in substance to the…

The Board refused to admit the only set of claims,  with an added limitation, filed in the patentee's grounds of appeal. In the  Board's view, the applicant should have submitted the amended claims…

Since Rule 140 EPC is not available to correct the text of a patent, a patent proprietor's request for such a correction is inadmissible whenever made, including after the initiation of opposition…

In a decision dated 14 June 2012, the Swiss Federal Patent Court granted a patent holder's request for preliminary taking of evidence by means of the creation of a precise description of an allegedly…

The next wave of U.S. patent reform changes embodied in the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act takes effect on September 16, 2012. The following is a list of some key changes that may impact granted,…

On 8 June 2012, the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris rendered an interesting decision concerning Losartan. It particularly deals with two questions: the conditions of the SPC’s paediatric…