In episode 7 of season 4 of “Silicon Valley”, very aptly named “The Patent Troll”, the start-up Pied Piper, which is built on a bold and disruptive vision, suddenly finds itself under threat. A man…
by Adam Lacy and Thorsten Bausch
As European patent professionals are all too aware, the Boards of Appeal of the EPO (BOA) have a huge amount of power, particularly over the rights of patentees. In…
There was a time where appeal before the EPO could be used to revisit anything that went wrong or was omitted in opposition proceedings.
Since 2003, when the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of…
