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Most of those in the patent attorney profession find the career richly rewarding due to the wide variety of complex legal and technical issues involved in commercialising an invention.

Examining the intersection of AI technology with patent eligible subject matter is a challenge for patent offices around the world.

The first European patent to be granted in relation to CRISPR technology (EP2771468) has recently been revoked after high-profile opposition and appeal proceedings.

At the end of January 2018, US based animation studio, DreamWorks Animation finally won a seven year trade mark battle against Shanghai Weipu Dress Co. Ltd.

This article looks at the position in the UK, Germany, where the doctrine of equivalents has been established over time by national case law...

The term "artificial intelligence" is sometimes used in European patent applications and patents without further explanation or elaboration, AI apparently being taken to be no more than a known...

Different EPO Board of Appeal decisions have taken different directions with regard to what, in relation to developments concerning graphical user interfaces...

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Das System für Patentstreitverfahren ist in Deutschland zweigeteilt, wobei Patentnichtigkeits- und Patentverletzungsverfahren vor unterschiedlichen Gerichten verhandelt werden.

After a period of moderate growth the number of new European patent applications received by the EPO in 2020 fell slightly (1282 new applications or 0.7% less than in 2019).

Following a bumper year of patent activity in 2018, the UK Supreme Court did not slow down in 2019, issuing judgements on obviousness,

Germany has a bifurcated patent litigation system wherein the issues of patent validity and patent infringement are dealt with in separate courts.

Convenient, cheap and readily available, we all know how much single-use plastic we each use in day-to-day life. Worryingly, 55% of plastic waste is discarded globally into landfill or the natural environment.

After years of delay caused by legal challenges in Germany to ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (also known as the "UPC Agreement" or "UPCA")...

In a recent review of blockchain patenting at the EPO we noted the rapid increase in numbers of patent applications related to developments in blockchain technology in the last couple of years.

Where the application is the EP regional phase of a PCT application, the applicant can speed up the process by: filing the PCT application as early as possible; obtaining an EPO search during the international phase;

Companies with Research and Development departments in Germany need to be aware of the regulations of the German Act on Employee Inventions, „Gesetz über Arbeitnehmererfindungen" (ArbEG), ...