European Patent Convention
António Campinos will serve another five years as EPO president – perhaps he’ll calm unrest at the office in that time
Nokia beats Oppo in Germany; Australia and EPO to continue PPH; Ed Sheeran nets nearly £1m in legal fees; Google backs down in €500m French appeal
The Unified Patent Court has lifted public access blocks on judgments but kept them for pleadings and evidence in the final version of its Rules of Procedure
Sources say a new administrative tribunal could free up routes for staff to air their grievances, but question the likelihood of such a change
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The 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.
