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April 16, 2013
Italy and Spain have failed to persuade the Court of Justice of the EU to prevent other member states from going ahead with the unitary patent
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April 12, 2013
German scientist Oliver Brüstle’s long-running fight for patent rights over his work on stem cells has suffered a setback after the EPO revoked his European patent this week
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March 26, 2013
A committee of representatives from the 25 countries that have signed up to the unitary patent has begun to discuss how much to charge IP owners for using the new system
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March 13, 2013
After three judgments over nearly five years in the Schütz v Werit dispute, we now finally know what is meant by the word “makes” in the UK Patents Act 1977
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February 25, 2013
Managing IP’s Global Awards Dinner recognising outstanding work in IP in the past year takes place in London on April 17. Winners will be selected from the following shortlists
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February 19, 2013
Twenty-four of the 27 EU member states today signed the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court
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January 17, 2013
The world might be reeling from recession but it seems as if companies are innovating – or at least patenting – their way out of it. Filings at the EPO were up 5.7% last year, with China recording growth of 11.3%
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December 18, 2012
Managing IP’s editors have scanned the trillions of words written on IP in the past year, and selected their favourite 25 articles from publications such as Fortune, BusinessWeek and the Economist as well as IP blogs and of course Managing IP itself. We’ve also included some infographics, pictures and video
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December 12, 2012
A vote by MEPs yesterday in favour of the unitary patent means that IP owners planning their patent filing strategies could soon have a new way of protecting their rights in Europe
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December 07, 2012
EPO President Benoit Battistelli is “confident, after long discussions, that EU authorities [Council of Ministers and European Parliament] will agree on a unitary patent package next week” he said today
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December 06, 2012
The European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) launched a Chinese-English component of the EPO’s free automatic translation service called Patent Translate today
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November 30, 2012
A judge sitting in the High Court in London has said he can rule on whether patents in France, Germany, Italy and Spain are infringed in a single trial in the UK
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October 23, 2012
Who will be the judges? What role should the Court of Justice of the EU have? Will there be more bifurcation? And would you like to become a European patent judge? These were just some of the questions addressed by litigation specialists in a panel discussion
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October 08, 2012
Managing IP lists the IP-related meetings and events taking place this week
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September 26, 2012
MEPs and member states are considering a new solution to break the impasse over whether the Court of Justice of the EU should have the final say on how the law on the unitary patent is interpreted, EU Commission official Kerstin Jorna has said
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September 24, 2012
The UCL Institute for Brand and Innovation Law and Taylor Wessing are hosting a two-day conference on November 6 and 7 this year in London
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June 25, 2012
Managing IP lists the intellectual property meetings, decisions and events happening this week
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June 20, 2012
Two-thirds of patents opposed at the European Patent Office are revoked or amended. So how can you maximise your chances of forcing your competitors to abandon or modify their patent applications?
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June 14, 2012
Copenhagen played host this morning to a genuinely affecting ceremony at the EPO’s European Inventor Awards 2012
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June 12, 2012
Kerstin Jorna, the EU Commission official in charge of intellectual property, has told Managing IP that the debate over the proposed unitary patent package should be “de-dramatised”