Mandatory videoconference hearings at the EPO
24 Jan 2021
Mandatory videoconference hearings at the EPO and the Boards of Appeals in 2021...
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The new EUIPO Pro Bono Programme
23 Jan 2021
Designed to help European SMEs access their IP rights...
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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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