Following months of speculation, EPO Board of Appeal 3.2.01 yesterday issued decision T 439/22 referring questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on the extent to which the description and…
It has been about a year since the UPC issued its first PI decision, making it a good time to reflect on the case law created so far.
The year has seen PI applications being made in front of a range…
Prepared by Rob Rodrigues, Brenno Telles and Dara Offrede
On Friday June 21, 2024, the government formally introduced regulations addressing the new framework for Partnerships for Productive…
Introduction
On 19 June 2024, The Hague Local Division handed down a judgment in a dispute brought by Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (“Abbott”) against Sibio Technology Limited and Umedwings Netherlands…
Following up on Thorsten’s blog post yesterday, I report on the second day of the Oxviews 9th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum, which took place in the Justizpalast in Munich on 19 June.…
A report on OxViews 9th IP and Competition Forum and the Osnabrücker Patenttage 2024
The question on how intellectual property and specifically patents can contribute to sustainable innovations that…
Divisional applications and pre-grant oppositions may be filed until the “end of the examination”. That is the wording of the Brazilian IP Statute (Law No. 9279/96, articles 26 and 31). Looks simple…
The Manual IP, also known as the Brown Book, is a comprehensive publication. It covers a lot of information on patents/utility models, trademarks and designs for 240 jurisdictions around the world.…
Patent claims, and therewith infringement, can get lost in translation. The Dutch first instance court limited a patent’s scope of protection based on the Dutch translation of the claims. The Court…
On 30 April 2024, the UPC's Local Division Düsseldorf handed down a new chapter in the 10x Genomics saga. This time the case is not against NanoString (see this post on the lost appeal) but against…
