Bundestag adopted UPC Agreement 2017 but challenges continue
01 Dec 2020
Interesting news for all IP practitioners...
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New guidelines for examinations in Brazilian biotech are pending
01 Oct 2020
New Guidelines for Examination of Patent Applications within the Biotechnology field are to be published soon....
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Amazon’s experimental “Utility Patent Neutral Evaluation Program”: the good, the bad and the ugly
30 Jun 2020
The past few weeks have been interesting, to say the least....
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FICPI welcomes move to make EPO oral proceedings in opposition via video until September 2020
08 Jun 2020
Robert Watson reports on the lobbying of EPO by FICPI, which may have contributed to the EPO announcing that all oral proceedings in Oppositions...
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How to respond to significant changes to the Taiwan Patent Act
28 May 2020
With the growing high-tech industry, Taiwan is rising to become a global technology and innovation powerhouse, and many foreign corporations are showing interest in...
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Changes at the German Patent and Trademark Office
20 Apr 2020
The German Patent and Trademark Office has announced that deadlines in all ongoing IPR proceedings granted by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office...
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