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Cooperative Patent Classification – a new patent classification system

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on November 2, 2011

Everybody who ever conducted patent litterature searches knows the problems arising from the very different criteria for classifying patents in the respective patent classification systems used in Europe by the EPO, ECLA (European CLAssification), and in the USA by the USPTO, USPC (US Patent Classification. Fortunately the solution is nearby! The EPO and the USPTO have...

Tags: classification system, Europe, Patent, USA

Software inventions: The BGH confirms examination approach

By AWA | Posted on June 22, 2011

By its judgment in X ZR 121/09 (Webseitenanzeige), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) recently nullified one of Siemens AG’s German patents (English-language version) for lacking technical character. The judgment can be said to belong to the same lineage as Xa ZB 20/08 (Dynamische Dokumentengenerierung), which was reported in AWA IP Review 2/2010, and...

Tags: Attorney, BGH, EPC, Europe, Patent, Software

A Favourite in Trademark Law: Repackaging – now gassy

By AWA | Posted on April 14, 2011

Danish courts are traditionally reluctant to ask preliminary questions on the interpretation of EU-legislation. Recently, the Supreme Court has done so, and quite comprehensively. During the 1990’s there were countless cases all over Europe regarding repackaging of products, especially medicines and printer toner cartridges, after parallel imports from one state to another. This case is a new...

Tags: Denmark, EU, Europe, Gas, Legislation, Packaging

EU survey now open for participation

By Vibeke Warberg Rohde | Posted on August 18, 2010

EU survey now open for participation Every two years the European Commission conducts a survey in order to identify the most important obstacles met by EU citizens applying for and enforcing intellectual property rights in countries outside the EU. The 2010 survey is now open and anyone may participate using the online questionnaire found here....

Tags: china, EU, Europe, IP, IPR

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