The Preparatory Committee for the Unified Patent Court has published a new version of the draft Rules of Procedure.
According to the Committee, the draft ‘is yet to come under scrutiny by the…
1. Background
In June 2008, China announced the Outline of National IP Strategy (“IP Strategy”), which set up a roadmap for China to become a country of high level of IP creation, utilization and…
In an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding challenging a SimpleAir patent that described a method of transmitting data to remote computing devices, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board did not err in…
The enlarged board of appeal (EBA) of the European patent office effectively ended the possibility of poisonous priority. The EBA held that entitlement to partial priority may not be refused for a…
The duration of proceedings before the Boards of Appeal (BoA) currently is the EPO’s biggest problem in regard to speed. According to the latest Annual Report by the Boards of Appeal, the average…
Early certainty in opposition proceedings is clearly a desirable objective, and the President’s commitment to lowering the average duration of (normal) opposition proceedings to 15 months on the…
The current President of the EPO claims in his blog that there is a general demand from the users of the EPO – i.e. primarily the applicants – to have a timely delivery of the work product of the EPO…
Dr. Simon Klopschinski
rospatt osten pross – Intellectual Property Rechtsanwälte
In the international investment arbitration of Eli Lilly v. Canada the arbitral tribunal rendered on March 16, 2017…
The German Federal Council, the Bundesrat approved draft legislation to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement and to amend German patent law in its 31 March session.
It means the German…
Last Saturday (1 April 2017) the Spanish Official Gazette ("Boletín Oficial del Estado") published Royal Decree 316/2017, dated 31 March, containing the Implementing Regulations of the Patents Act 24…
