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Patent Prosecution Highway: New possibilities for Swedish patent applicants
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on November 12, 2013
Swedish patent applicants and others using the Swedish Patent- och registreringsverket (PRV) as the office for first filing of patent applications are getting new possibilities for obtaining accelerated prosecution of their following foreign patent applications; the PRV are expanding their participation in the international PPH network with a number of new PPH agreements. Effective 1...
The on-sale bar under the AIA
By AWA | Posted on October 23, 2013
Do non-public sales in Europe destroy novelty in the U.S.? Among the many news that applicants have had to digest in the America Invents Act, the revised on-sale bar may be one of the more intriguing. Before the law reform, grant of a patent was excluded whenever the invention was … in public use or...
The pride and joy of working as a Patent Attorney
By Love Koči | Posted on October 9, 2013
What was your dream job as a child? My best guess would be astronaut, musician, actor, fireman, veterinarian or soccer player. But what about Patent Attorney? Not on your list? Definitely, the dream job changes if you ask a child compared to a university student or a newly-graduated student. Lists are regularly published regarding the...
Changes in the Patent Prosecution Highway agreement between DKPTO and CIPO
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on September 26, 2013
Effective 30 July 2013, the part of the PPH-agreement between The Danish Patent- and Trademark Office (DKPTO) and The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) applicaple for applicants using the DKPTO as the Office of First Filing, i.e. typically Danish applicants, has been changed by the CIPO to have the same requirements as a PPH MOTTAINAI...
Reform and rebellion in the trademark world
By AWA | Posted on August 12, 2013
This spring, the EU commission published their proposals for a reform of the Council Regulation (EC) No 207/2009 on the Community trade mark and the Directive 2008/95/EC to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks. An earlier version of the proposals had been leaked ahead of time, but by the time...
Tags: PTO
Don’t bring your invention on vacation!
By Vibeke Warberg Rohde | Posted on August 7, 2013
This week a Swedish inventor was forced to realize that it is not smart to bring you invention when going to Denmark on vacation. Particularly not when the invention involves a large battery and a lot of wires attached to a car and when planning to park in a public garage. The trip resulted in...
The Cooperative Patent Classification expands!
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on August 5, 2013
The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC), which has now been in active use for half a year, has now begun the very interesting procedure of expanding geographically speaking. Particularly, both the SIPO (China) and the KIPO (Korea) have signed a so-called memorandum of understanding to initiate the adoption of the CPC. For starters, both offices have...
Tags: CPC
Birthday musings: Designing design strategy
By AWA | Posted on July 16, 2013
Earlier this year, the community design celebrated its tenth birthday. On 1 April 2003, the first community design was registered in Alicante and since then more than 690,000 designs have been registered. The yearly filings increase by a rate of no less than 78,000 a year. I think it’s fair to say that the community...
The dark side of the Internet
By AWA | Posted on July 12, 2013
On Friday the 14 June 2013 we participated in a seminar arranged by the Danish PTO in corporation with the Confederation of Danish Industry on the topic “IP infringements online”. The seminar aimed at discussing how to protect against infringement of one’s IP-rights on the Internet, and moreover a discussion of counterfeit, its extent and...
An attempt to clarify what an embryo is
By Joanna Applequist | Posted on July 1, 2013
What is really meant by the term ”human embryo” as used in Article 6(2)(c) of the Biotech Directive (98/44/EC)? Are parthenotes to be considered as embryos and what is meant by “capable of commencing the process of development to a human being”? Following an appeal by International Stem Cell Corporation (“ISCC”) against a decision that...
Tags: Article 6(2)(c) of Directive 98/44/EC, embryo, Human embryo
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