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May 03, 2012
The planned EU Unified Patent Court will hinder, rather than help, patent enforcement in the EU according to a UK parliamentary committee
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April 20, 2012
The creation of a unitary patent and centralised, specialised IP court is “an economic imperative” and it is time to complete the European patent system, EPO President Benoît Battistelli said this week
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April 20, 2012
In-house counsel, a former judge and the head of the EPO clashed over the proposals for an EU unitary patent on Wednesday
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April 20, 2012
Oswald Schroeder owes his job to a mouse
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April 05, 2012
In-house counsel from Audi, GE Healthcare, GSK, Nokia, Philips, Skype, UBS and Unilever are speaking at Managing IP’s second International Patent Forum, taking place in London on April 18 and 19
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March 26, 2012
The number of patents granted in the UK last year rose by more than a third, the largest leap in a decade
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February 29, 2012
The European Patent Office and Google have launched a new six-language machine translation service to improve access to patent documents a year after they embarked on the joint project
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January 30, 2012
Heads of government at today’s EU Council meeting will be discussing the euro, youth unemployment and boosting enterprise - but they may also find time to break the deadlock on the planned unitary patent
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January 23, 2012
Willem Gijsels is an examiner in the telecommunications cluster at the EPO. He joined the Office in 1996 after five years in industry and works in The Hague. This EPO site is home to about 2,500 EPO staff, roughly half of whom are examiners. He tells Emma Barraclough about a typical working day
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January 09, 2012
Last week the director of the USPTO pledged to expand its network of patent prosecution highways as it seeks to cut pendency and backlogs. But not all big offices share his approach
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December 22, 2011
You knew it was coming. The festive story on Christmas patents. Although the overlap with drag racing and oil exploration is perhaps a little more surprising
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December 14, 2011
With the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee set to discuss the unitary patent package next week, Emma Barraclough speaks to MEP Cecilia Wikström
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December 12, 2011
Patent attorneys and IP owners who want protection for their stem cell research will soon get new guidance from the European Patent Office about what is, and is not, patentable
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December 07, 2011
If EU member states ever want to get a deal on the patent reform package they need to put their negotiating cards on the table, a senior Commission official said today
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November 29, 2011
Inventors and patent applicants will be able to use a free automatic translation service to access patents filed at the Chinese patent office as a result of a deal between the EPO and SIPO
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November 02, 2011
Patent offices in Europe are considering whether to change their approach to the patenting of stem cell-related inventions following a Court of Justice ruling last month
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October 31, 2011
Free access: A method for rapid fish beheading, a gun for firing grasshoppers and a mechanism for extracting blood? It has to be Halloween
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October 31, 2011
From tomorrow, the Finnish IP office will accept patent applications drafted in English as well as those in Finnish and Swedish
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October 25, 2011
A new round of hearings over a controversial European patent for broccoli has been cancelled, one week before patent activists planned to demonstrate at the EPO’s Munich headquarters
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October 19, 2011
Markus Coehn and Matthias Traut of Fish & Richardson explain how the Court of Justice has reshaped European law on the patenting of stem cells and human embryos