European Patent Convention
Patentees should feel cautious optimism over the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal’s decision in G2/21, say European patent attorneys
The issue of the Unified Patent Court’s third central division needs resolving before IP owners can fully embrace Europe’s new era
Moritz Meckel and Nikita Alymov at Finnegan unpick the German Federal Constitutional Court’s decision to dismiss challenges to the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
The funder says the case is ready to be filed in a German division the moment the Unified Patent Court goes live on June 1
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Sponsored by Gün and PartnersThe new system raises several questions for European Patent Convention countries that are not EU members, say Selin Sinem Erciyas, Aysel Korkmaz Yatkın, Zeynep Çağla Üstün and Aysu Eryaşar of Gün + Partners -
Sponsored by InspicosThe Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO (EBA) has recently issued opinion G 3/19, which concludes that plants and animals exclusively obtained by “essentially biological processes” are exempt from patentability. This finding only affects patents derived from patent applications filed after July 1 2017.
