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Wider scope of protection for Swedish patents?

By AWA | Posted on November 20, 2013

Last week the Swedish government referred an amendment of the Swedish patent law to the Council on Legislation for reconsideration. According to the suggested amendment, patent applications filed in English need not be translated into Swedish. Instead, they can be granted in English. For applicants filing a Swedish patent application in English and wishing to...

Tags: EPO, Europe, patent application, sweden

Cooperative Patent Classification – Time to prepare for the launch

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 18, 2012

Almost a year ago I wrote on the Awapatent IP Blog about the efforts of the EPO and USPTO to harmonize their patent classification systems to form the Cooperative Patent Classification (in short CPC). The work is progressing, and it has now become time for an update. The CPC is now taking shape, and it has...

Tags: CPC, EPO, IPC, patent classification, USPTO

The Patent Prosecution Highway expands

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on May 31, 2012

I have previously written about the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement, which aims at easing the requirements for requesting patent examinations. The latest news is that the EPO (European Patent Office) entered the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement at the beginning of the year (29 January) and thus the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement has now been signed by a total of nine countries. With...

Tags: EPO, Japan, patent prosecution highway, USA

EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal repeats obligation to raise objections in time

By AWA | Posted on February 1, 2012

Last week, the European Patent Office released two new decisions by the Enlarged Board of Appeal on petitions for review, R 2/11 and R 10/11. Both the underlying petitions were based on what the petitioners regarded as fundamental procedural defects before respective Boards of Appeal 3.2.04 and 3.2.03. Both cases are appeals from opposition proceedings. In R...

Tags: Board of Appeal, claim amendments, EPO

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

The EPO starts cooperation with Google to provide machine translation of patents

By AWA | Posted on March 29, 2011

On 24 March, the EPO and Google signed an agreement to collaborate on machine translation of patents. Using Google Translate technology, the EPO will offer translations into 28 European languages, and into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian. In order to be able to adapt the machine translation to the specific language used in patents, Google...

Tags: EPO, Google, Translation

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