European Commission to propose radical new SEP/FRAND regime with major consequences for patent owners
Draft EU rules are set to empower EUIPO with mandatory essentiality checking framework but kickback expected
Draft EU rules are set to empower EUIPO with mandatory essentiality checking framework but kickback expected
While Turkey is not a UPC member state, the UPC’s lack of case law means that it will rely on EPO jurisprudence – a crucial element of Turkish judicial proceedings. It is thus highly likely that UPC proceedings and EPO evaluations will have a big impact on one another.
The EBA has not laid out clear rules about when post-filed evidence can be used to demonstrate technical effect
In what can be seen as a relief for patent holders, the new disproportionality exception for the enforcement of patent injunctions has left the German district courts' strict approach to injunctions unchanged.
08 March 2023
Under the Greek Patent Law, European patent applicants can enjoy provisional protection against potential infringers, so long as they successfully carry out certain formalities and can justify that their request is sufficiently urgent.
08 March 2023
Potential initiatives to limit continuation practice are causing deep divides in the life sciences patent community – causing technology licensors and Big Tech to take sides
07 March 2023
Saturday Opinion: Disseminating covid diagnostics and therapeutics is critical, but attempting to do so via the TRIPS waiver extension is rife with unintended consequences
04 March 2023
The country’s highest court grappled with questions that are fundamental to the future of patent law
03 March 2023
The USPTO director shares her thoughts on life sciences IP rights and ongoing collaboration with the FDA
02 March 2023
Without significant reforms that restore the right to exclude, lower costs and clarify eligibility, SMEs will remain second class citizens and the big calls on FRAND and SEPs will be made in Europe
02 March 2023
Court of Appeal President Klaus Grabinski speaks exclusively to IAM as three-month countdown to the Unified Patent Court gets underway
01 March 2023
The vaccine maker has paid for use of state-owned IP, but several points of contention remain
28 February 2023
The region is lagging behind its global peers in invention productivity but there are ways this gulf can be crossed
24 February 2023
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