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…
On 6 March 2026, the UPC Court of Appeal in Dyson v Dreame & Eurep referred four questions concerning the extent of the UPC’s long-arm jurisdiction to the Court of Justice of the European Union…
As previously reported in this blog, on 11 February 2026, the UK Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2026]…
For the past year, European patent lawyers have been discussing the “long arm” of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as if jurisdiction were simply a question of geographical reach. In cross-border…
In J 1/24, Board 3.1.01 (the Legal Board of Appeal) surprised many practitioners by treating a divisional filed after the publication of the mention of the grant as validly filed. As this went…
On 19 February 2026, the English Court of Appeal (Arnold LJ presiding) handed down its decision in Salts v Pelican [2026] EWCA Civ 93 – an appeal against the first instance decision of Ian Karet (…
In a landmark ruling handed down on 11 February, the UK Supreme Court in [Emotional Perception AI v Comptroller General [2026] UKSC 3] has brought about a shift in the way that the …
