What are the criteria for patentability in your area? The unified patent court will have jurisdiction to hear claims relating to both European patents and upcoming European patent with unitary effect. The European Patent Office will grant the unitary patent in accordance with European Patent Convention. The pre-grant procedure and requirements to obtain unitary patents will be [...]
Inventors and businesses seeking protection for their patents from EPO office and Eurasian Patent Office are now able to benefit from fast-track patent examination at both offices, following the entry into force of joint patent prosecution highway pilot programme. The PPH also permits each participating patent office to share and re-use existing work results. [...]
“The CSC , Central Staff Committee, has been made aware that a petition to the Administrative Council is circulating among EPO examiners. “We, examiners of the European Patent Office, are submitted to constraints that are no longer compatible with fulfilling appropriately our duties within the Search and Examination divisions. We are far too often [...]
How long should proceedings before EPO ideally take? Admitted this is a tricky question because various stakeholders’ will usually have different interests and thoughts so as to what the “right” or ideal “speed” is. Let us tackle this question by beginning with a simple distinction. In ex-parte proceedings, the main stakeholder is the applicant [...]
At the world’s biggest computer fair, the CEBIT in Hannover , Germany today , an official of the European Patent Office promoted patents for CII(computer implemented inventions), also called software patents by critics. CII continues to grow considerably, according to EPO. While mathematical methods, programs for computers, and presentations of information are excluded by [...]
Humans have been chasing a cure for the common cold, but it’s seemed to be entirely out of our grasp, it’s become modern medicine's version of pigs flying. But now there seems a streak of transformation and enlightenment in this darkness which has prevailed from decades. A scientist has registered a patent for a [...]
