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Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal regarding negative features in a claim (i.e. disclaimers).

By AWA | Posted on November 3, 2016

The use of undisclosed disclaimers in a filed application has been practiced since the start of the EPC (European Patent Convention) and was codified in G 1/03. According to this decision, three exceptions from the general principle (a patent or patent application may not be amended in such a way that it contains subject-matter which...

Tags: applications, awapatent, EBA, epa, EPC

EPO gets Stricter on Requirements for Recording Assignments

By AWA | Posted on October 24, 2016

The EPO is going to take a stricter approach for recording an assignment of EP applications. Up until now the EPO has accepted assignment documents evidencing a transfer that had only been signed by the Assignor. Recordal of assignment is governed by Article 72 EPC which states that “An assignment of a European patent application...

Tags: awapatent, EP application, EPO, Patent, patent application

European Patent Office: New PPH agreements on the way

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 20, 2016

The ever expanding Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) network keeps getting new additions, and as usual, the AWAPATENT IP Blog sums up the new expansions and arising possibilities. The PPH is a system of bilateral agreements allowing for requesting accelerated examination at one participating office. The system is based on the search results and a set...

Tags: awapatent, EPO, Patent, patent application, PPH

The value of design patents

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on October 18, 2016

It is a perfectly clear, crisp morning as I make my way from Washington DC’s Union Station, through a clean and perfectly trimmed Senate Park, to the white neoclassical palace that houses the United States Supreme Court. The wide pavement and massive stairs leading to the building’s entrance is filled with journalists, photographers and television...

Tags: awapatent, IP, Patent, Trademark, USA

Chinese focus on IP

By Vibeke Warberg Rohde | Posted on October 1, 2012

Recently representatives of Awapatent participated in the China Intellectual Property Focus 2012 conference in Shanghai. Our participation is a part of our effort to make Awapatent’s name known in China, but we also believe that it is important to contribute to the growing IP awareness in China. Accordingly, Mikael Bergstrand from our Malmö office gave...

Tags: awapatent, china, counterfeits, IP rights

Patentability of inventions relating to human embryonic stem cells

By AWA | Posted on October 20, 2011

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has recently issued a decision clarifying the situation on patentability, in Europe, of inventions relating to human embryonic stem cells. In the decision it is declared that the concept of a “human embryo”, the exploitation of which is excluded from patentability according to the EU Biotechnology Directive...

Tags: awapatent, CJ, EPO, Patent, Stem cells

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