Posted: February 14th, 2020
EPC.App is an annotated European Patent Convention (EPC) and PCT.App is an annotated Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), which allow each user to further annotate them electronically and to receive updates from the authors without losing individual user annotations. EPC.App /PCT.App are electronic books implemented as a web browser application, which offer for registered users: – […]
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Posted: February 11th, 2020
On Sunday 5 April 2020 (One day prior to the Young EPLAW congress), twenty Young EPLAW volunteers will be given the opportunity to participate in the ‘How to plead a case’ project. For each pair of claimant and defendant a mock patent case will be circulated in advance, so that they can exchange short petitions […]
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Posted: February 7th, 2020
Proceedings Before the European Patent Office, A Practical Guide to Success in Opposition and Appeal, Second Edition, Elgar Practical Guides Marcus O. Müller, Chairman of Board 3.3.02, European Patent Office, Munich/Haar, Germany and Cees A.M. Mulder, European Patent Attorney and Professor of European Patent Law in a Global Context, Maastricht University, the Netherlands The second […]
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Posted: February 4th, 2020
Generics (UK) Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline and others v. Competition and Markets Authority, Reference for a preliminary ruling, Judgment of the Court, 30 January 2020, Case no. C‑307/18 On those grounds, the Court (Fourth Chamber) hereby rules: 1. Article 101(1) TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that a manufacturer of originator medicines who is the holder of […]
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Posted: January 31st, 2020
IPCom GmbH & Co. KG v. Lenovo (France) SAS et al., Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (preliminary proceedings), 20 January 2020 The Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (Paris Court of First Instance) has dismissed IPCom’s preliminary injunction action brought against Lenovo, on the ground that the requested injunction would be disproportionate. The action was based on European […]
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Posted: January 30th, 2020
Tomra Sorting Limited v. Kiremko B.V., Provisions Judge of the District Court of The Hague, 17 January 2020, Case no. ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2020:274 Kiremko produces machines for the potatoe processing industry. Tomra instigated preliminary injunction proceedings against Kiremko, alleging Kiremko infringed Tomra’s EP 379 relating to “Pressure release arrangements, in particular for product processing system”. The Judge […]
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Posted: January 30th, 2020
The Dutch AIPPI ‘Zeist’ symposium shall take place on 11 March 2020 in Hotel Figi in Zeist. The programme and registration details will be announced here.
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Posted: January 29th, 2020
EPO, Receiving Section, decisions of January 27, 2020 in consolidated proceedings on applications EP 18 275 163 and EP 18 275 174 Applicant Dr. Stephen Thaler filed two European patent applications. In the request for grant Form, the field for indicating the inventor was left empty. In reply to the invitation to designate the inventor(s), […]
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Posted: January 24th, 2020
The 20th edition of National law relating to the EPC is now online. “With its “National law relating to the EPC” booklet, the EPO aims to provide European patent applicants and proprietors, and all others concerned with the European patent system, with a concise guide to the most important provisions and requirements of the relevant […]
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Posted: January 21st, 2020
Slides of presentations held at the EPLAW Congress of 29 November 2019, are now online. They can be found here.
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