The Austrian Foreign Ministry has reported that on 7 August Austria deposited in Brussels its ratification instrument for the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court.

On 8 May the District Court of The Hague passed judgement in the case of Cresco versus Taste of Nature.

NLO based in The Hague, has acquired all the shares in Zacco Netherlands B.V. Until 2009, Amsterdam-based Zacco Netherlands operated under the name Shieldmark.

NLO Shieldmark becomes second largest trademark office in the Netherlands

The Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court has set up a website featuring a ‘Roadmap’ explaining the steps to be taken to create the high quality patent court required for the unitary patent.

Draft regulations relating to unitary patents were published recently.

A discussion on the future predictions in protecting clients' innovations and intellectual property.

Lundbeck’s patents protecting their blockbuster Cipralex® have been subject to invalidation actions around the globe for already quite some years.

With the adoption of two important regulations by the European Parliament and the EU Council and the signature of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court by 25 EU member states, a single patent system for Europe will soon be reality

The opinion of the US Supreme Court issued on June 13th, 2013 relating to Myriad Genetics' patent of BRCA genes is breaking news and is suggested to have a major impact on gene patenting.