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After the German government’s suggestion that it will wait for Brexit before ratifying the Unified Patent Court Agreement, businesses say the news does not affect their already frozen preparation strategies

How can you win opposition proceedings without discovery? What lessons do proceedings at the PTAB offer for businesses in Europe? What are the upsides – and downsides – of discovery? These were among the questions addressed by a panel of speakers at Managing IP’s European Patent Reform Forum in San Jose

In part three of our series on private practice versus in-house work, lawyers explain why – despite an element of “the grass is always greener” – they have been happy to steer clear of in-house life

Patent owners have found it tough to meet the requirements for motions to amend claims in PTAB post issuance review proceedings. Binal J Patel, J Pieter van Es and Kimberly S Devine examine the eight decisions where such motions have been granted

A source at the US technology company talks about the challenges and opportunities involved in separating the licensing and product businesses into two corporate entities

Observers say the Unwired Planet ruling sets out a blueprint for licensing standard essential patents, cements the UK’s position as an attractive forum to enforce SEPs and has implications for 5G

The UK government will propose legislation to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes within the next two months, meaning it would come into force next year

One of the EPO's Technical Boards of Appeal has recently reminded the community of the front-loaded nature of inter partes opposition proceedings. In proceedings leading to decision T 2193/14 dated 14 March 2017 and made publicly available on May 11 2017, the opponent was deprived of the possibility of having certain prior art citations considered which purportedly were relevant for the assessment of non-obviousness. The Board of Appeal denied the admissibility into the proceedings of the aforementioned citations, which were submitted by the opponent on appeal only, and eventually confirmed the patentability of the claimed subject-matter without having considered the citations in question on their substantive merits.

Through strategic claim drafting, oil and gas companies can overcome Section 101 and obtain patents covering digital technologies and AI, say Charles Collins-Chase, Jennifer Roscetti and Paul Townsend of Finnegan

In the second part of our series on the potential pull of in-house work, we talk to young lawyers at the BBC, a Dutch dairy company and a multinational who tell us why private practice did not appeal to them