Region: Europe

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Germany will host four of the UPC’s 13 local divisions and harmonisation in the decision-making practice, especially in SEP cases, is expected to be years away.

21 December 2022

These new patent pools, global litigation developments, and SEP policy changes will keep making waves in the New Year

21 December 2022

Experts from IAM’s Strategy 300 Global Leaders share insights on hotspots including China, India, the United States and Europe

20 December 2022

Legal protection for software remains highly challenging in Greece. Patent hopefuls must ensure that their programs contain – and omit – key characteristics outlined by the EPO and Greek law.

14 December 2022

Pharmaceutical patent holders have the unenviable task of providing evidence before IP courts to prove infringement to obtain a preliminary injunction decision to prevent launch of the infringing product to the market. Unfortunately, disparities in Turkish courts’ approaches to requests for determination of evidence are making a challenging job even harder.

14 December 2022

Using company designations in customer reference lists without explicit authorisation is grounds for infringement, Munich’s regional court has held. However, this ruling does not guarantee that further reimbursement will be granted.

14 December 2022

Several former Via licensors have joined the new programme

14 December 2022

European courts have pushed back against ASIs, but the European Commission is seeking a political fix

13 December 2022

Stephen Rowan speaks with IAM about how the office is seeking to maintain and improve patent quality

12 December 2022

Multi-jurisdictional battle over 5G SEPs has come to an end

09 December 2022