Troels Peter Rørdam
Andorran patent law enters into force
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on December 9, 2015
In the heart of the Pyrenees Mountains, on the border between France and Spain, lies a small independent country. This country, of course, is The Principality of Andorra. The co-princes exercising sovereignty over Andorra are the President of the French Republic and the (Spanish) Bishop of Urgel. Andorra is not part of the European Union....
Italy joins the unitary patent!
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 22, 2015
On 30 September 2015, Italy joined the unitary patent. Italy will thus form part of both the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) upon entry into force. So reports the Commission of the EU here. Italy is the country in which the fourth largest number of European patents is validated. The Italian decision...
Tags: unified patent court, UPC
European patents can now be validated in Moldova
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 15, 2015
On 1 November 2015 an agreement between the European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Agency on Intellectual Property of the Republic of Moldova allowing European patents to take legal effect in Moldova will enter in to force. Thereby, applicants with a European patent application will after this date be able to validate their granted...
The Global Patent Prosecution Highway expands in the heat of summer
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on July 2, 2015
As summer, at least here in Denmark, finally heats up, so does the PPH thus giving both Danish and Swedish patent applicants new possibilities of speeding up and simplifying examination of their patent applications. In the following the AWA IP Blog sums up these new possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH-agreement the PPH allows...
Tags: GPPH, Nordic Patent Institute, patent prosecution highway, PPH
First non-European country begins validating European patents
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on April 15, 2015
As earlier announced on the Awapatent IP Blog here, Tunisia and Morocco has signed an agreement with the EPO on the validation of European patents in the respective countries. Effective 1 March 2015 the agreement with Morocco entered in to force, thus enabling applicants with a European patent application filed on or after this date...
Tags: EPO, European patent, Morocco
New Patent Prosecution Highway possibilities for both Danish, Swedish and European applicants
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on November 14, 2014
As the PPH expands further, both Danish, Swedish and indeed European patent applicants are offered new possibilities of speeding up and simplifying examination of their patent applications. In the following the Awapatent IP Blog sums up these new possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH-agreement the PPH allows for requesting accelerated examination at the one...
European patent validation in Morocco and Tunisia
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 31, 2014
Recently, the EPO has initiated work on a new interesting possibility for European patent applicants. Namely, the EPO has reported having signed an agreement with the Tunisian government on the validation of European patents for Tunisia. A similar agreement has previously, in 2013, been signed with the Moroccan government. According to the agreements, European patents...
Sweden and China make new Patent Prosecution Highway agreement
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 9, 2014
Effective 1 July 2014 the PRV (Sweden) and the SIPO (China) started a new PPH-agreement thus offering especially our Swedish clients a new way of speeding up examination of patent applications in China by requesting that the SIPO use the search and examination results of the PRV in treating an analogous patent application. The PPH...
Blog entry #2 on new Rule 6 EPC
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on July 28, 2014
Will some applications be left with no Rule 6 EPC applicable following its amendment? Following my previous blog entry on the amended Rule 6 EPC, I have been made aware of a curiosity in the transitional provisions of the new Rule 6 EPC. Namely, the transitional provisions may, in principle, be interpreted as implying that...
Introduction of fee reductions for small entities before the EPO
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on May 15, 2014
Effective 1 April 2014 the Administrative Council (AC) of the EPO has changed the rules for obtaining reduction on certain fees charged in relation to the procedure before the EPO . The requirement that the applicant must be a resident of or have principal place of business is in an EPC contracting state with an...
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