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Over the summer we conducted a survey of European patent holders and applicants in a variety of different sectors to gauge their attitudes towards the forthcoming Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent...

In March 2021 the EPO published its revised Guidelines for Examination (hereafter, the "Guidelines"). One area of note that received extensive amendments was Part F Chapter V – Unity.

We are entering the final stretch of 2023, and what better way to celebrate than to take a deep-dive into recent facts and figures coming from the EPO?

Medical use encompasses use in therapy, use in in vivo diagnostics or use in surgery.

Methods of treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and diagnostic methods practiced on the human or body are excluded from patentability in Europe.

After its delayed start on 1 June 2023, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has now been in operation for six months.

16 cases were contrasted to examine whether the same claims would have different outcomes to their prosecution before the EPO and the JPO.

When graphene was first isolated in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester, it sparked a flurry of interest and excitement...

At the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, the 1,491 gold, silver, bronze and participation medals awarded to the teams were formed from 206,000 recycled mobile phones weighing a total of 31 tons.

You don't have to turn the clock back too far and quantum computing was more of an outlandish idea than a reality. Its growth however now appears to be accelerating...

Protectable inventions can arise at any stage of research and pharmaceutical clinical trials are no exception.

The ancestry of "virtual reality" (VR), here used as a broad term encompassing various associated technologies such as "augmented reality" (AR), "mixed reality" (MR)...

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decisions, demonstrating a swift approach to patent infringement and revocation cases. The UPC's handling of claim construction, added subject matter, novelty, and inventive step closely aligns with, yet occasionally diverges from, the European Patent Office (EPO) standards, suggesting the UPC is developing its own nuanced approach to patent validity.

Here's a high-level reference guide to EPO opposition and UPC revocation proceedings. Separated into three sections, open up each question to learn the key features of each procedure...

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There used to be a time when intellectual property ("IP") law was an obscure and esoteric area of the law, simply of interest to a few science geeks...

With the launch of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent (UP) fast approaching, there is a large amount of new terminology to get to grips with, ...