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PCT to the rescue

By AWA | Posted on April 22, 2014

According to Wikipedia, “time to market is the length of time it takes from a product being conceived until its being available for sale“. However, the success of the product can often not be determined until the product has been on the market for a period of time. For some products, the success is immediate,...

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There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe

By Malin Gullstrand Bergh | Posted on January 17, 2014

Required study preparations before our fourth lesson of the EQE Basic program concern the topics “Rights Conferred” and “Inventive step”, and include 25 Articles, 14 Rules, two Protocols and a number of Enlarged Board of Appeal decisions. Browsing through the material, I realize that while my copy of “The Annotated European Patent Convention” uses a...

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“The more you learn, the more enjoyable it gets”

By Mattias Pierrou | Posted on November 29, 2013

What does it mean that something is ”new”? New to you, new to some designated person, or new in an absolute sense? This naively straight forward, but in practice very complex, concept was the subject of our last class in preparation for the European Qualifying Examination (EQE). How can it be “new” to make a...

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