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…
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…
“Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements.” — Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950The Unified Patent Court was not created to…
Lesson 4: The UPC will not apply the Problem-Solution-Approach as developed by the EPOThis is now abundantly clear. In November 2025, the first and the second panel of the CoA have agreed on a common…
It has been a while since I last commented on the case law of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) on validity. To be precise, it was on 22 July 2024 in a blog titled “First Lessons on Validity before the…
I reported last year on the three-part article series published in EPI Information by Tamaris Bucher, Principal Patent Attorney at Novartis, on the EPO’s approach to assessing inventive step for…
Six months after the Unified Patent Court ("UPC") began its operations, we published an entry in this blog entitled The UPC is dead. Long live the UMC!; "UMC" standing for Unified Munich Court.The…
Space technologies have become increasingly strategic in the global innovation landscape. From satellite communications and Earth observation to advanced propulsion systems, space-related…
The preliminary opinion of the Enlarged Board in G 1/25 can be found here. At present, the Enlarged Board seem set to uphold the EPO practice of requiring adaptation of the description, both in…
