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…
Since the scope of an amended patent claim was not substantially similar to the scope of the original claim, the patentee was not entitled to infringement damages for the period prior to the…
The occasion of the autumn equinox seemed to be as good a time as any to release the results of the Kluwer Patent Blog summer quiz. Sincere thanks to the 92 people who completed all 20 questions. …
By Benjamin Bai and Tyler Xiu
The Chinese inventor remuneration laws have been in flux for the last several years. Uncertainties are abundant. The first remuneration case involving a foreign company…
‘Europe can become a more attractive forum for patent enforcement than the US’, according to Wouter Pors, partner of Bird & Bird. Kluwer IP Law interviewed him about the new draft proposal for…
With the Judges mostly on summer vacation, August and September have given some time for reflection on several decisions from the Patents Courts in July. One of those decisions was another defeat for…
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…
Since 2011, it has been clear in France that the possibility for patent owners to request before the French patent office a limitation of the claims of a granted patent, offered by article L. 613 24…
A district court’s decision denying awards of attorney fees incurred by several mobile device and digital camera makers in successfully defending against patent infringement claims by Honeywell…
In its decision Digitalblock (digital block) the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf) has discussed the question whether “sleeping” features of a device can cause patent…
