敦也 竹下
UP/UPCの運用開始から1年半が経過し、UPCによる有効性と侵害の評価も一般に好意的に受け止められている印象があり、また、有効性と侵害の審理を同時に扱うことにより、仮差止手続は2週から3ヶ月、 (...)
Frédéric Glaize, Clarisse Tourneux
欧州連合(EU)では、新しい意匠指令の採択と意匠規則の改正が行われ、2025年5月1日から改正後の意匠規則が適用されます。新指令と新規則の内容を、FLASHCARDとして数回にわたってご案内します。 (...)
Focus: Claim requirements – Conforming a US-style claim set to EPO practice
The EP standpoint
The (...)
Charlotte Juteau
Focus: The divisional Application
If you want to protect different aspects of an invention (...)
Charlotte Juteau
Focus: After filing – How my patent is granted at the EPO
Now that I have filed my application at (...)
Charlotte Leleu
In a decision issued on November 21, 2023, the UK High Court overturned a previous ruling by the UK (...)
Charlotte Juteau
Focus: Claim examination – My claim is rejected for lacking an inventive step
My claim received (...)
Laurence Loumes
Focus: Claim drafting – My claim is rejected for missing an essential element
The EP standpoint
A (...)
Laurence Loumes
Introduction
Climate change has emerged as a global crisis, with increasing reports of climate- (...)
Sandrine Bouvier-Ravon
It has been a busy time for patent attorneys registered with the Unified Patent Court ("UPC"), (...)
News
The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal recently issued a G 2/21 "plausibility" decision regarding the (...)