Posted: February 19th, 2020
High Point SARL v. KPN B.V., Supreme Court of the Netherlands, 14 February 2020, Case No. ECLI:NL:HR:2020:258 Is it contrary to Articles 68 and 105a-105c EPC that local rules of due process prevent that a centrally limited patent is invoked in proceedings? Interpretation of Articles 68 and 105a-105c EPC according to Articles 31 and 32 […]
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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: 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 17th, 2020
EPO, Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.08, case T 844/18 In January 2018, the Opposition Division revoked European patent 2 77 461 relating to an important aspect of the CRISPR Cas technology on the grounds of lack of novelty, denying claimed priorities from US provisional applications because not all of the applicants of the first applications […]
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Posted: December 20th, 2019
European Patent Office, Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.01, T 318/14, decision of February 7, 2019, reported by Dr. Rudolf Teschemacher, Bardehle Pagenberg In decisions G 1/05 and G 1/06, the Enlarged Board of Appel (EBA) accepted that the principle of the prohibition of double patenting exists on the basis that an applicant has no legitimate […]
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Posted: November 18th, 2019
The Guidelines for Search and Examination at the EPO as PCT Authority give instructions on the practice and procedure to be followed in various aspects of the handling of international applications before the EPO as International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority. They apply as from 1 November 2019. The Guidelines can be found […]
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Posted: October 1st, 2019
Enlarged Board of Appeal, G 2/19, decision of July 16, 2019, reported by Dr. Rudolf Teschemacher, Bardehle Pagenberg In its decision T 831/17 of February 25, 2019, Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.03 referred questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) concerning the right to oral proceedings of an appellant who is not party to […]
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Posted: September 19th, 2019
The 9th edition of the Case Law of the Boards of Appeal is now available on the EPO website. The PDF version can be accessed here. A printed version can still be ordered and will be available mid September.
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Posted: September 9th, 2019
Amicus curiae brief concerning G 1/19 – Patentability of computer-implemented simulation methods – Underlying decision: T 489/14 (Pedestrian simulation/CONNOR), by Hans Wegner and Tobias Kaufmann, Bardehle Pagenberg Dear Chairman and Members of the Enlarged Board of Appeal, The Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) have developed a well-balanced and consistent framework for […]
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