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First non-European country begins validating European patents
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on April 15, 2015
As earlier announced on the Awapatent IP Blog here, Tunisia and Morocco has signed an agreement with the EPO on the validation of European patents in the respective countries. Effective 1 March 2015 the agreement with Morocco entered in to force, thus enabling applicants with a European patent application filed on or after this date...
Tags: EPO, European patent, Morocco
The UPCA Opt-in/Pin-out scenario
By Michael Bech Sommer | Posted on December 16, 2014
The Unified Patent court agreement (UPCA) has been ratified in 2014 by both Denmark and Sweden, so even if the actual advent of the unitary patent and UPC is still some way off, potential patent rights holders in the two countries should already now prepare for the new regime. The coming into force of the...
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Tags: Europe, European patent, unified patent court, unitary patent
New EPO practice on the patentability of surgical methods
By Mikael Henriksson | Posted on February 17, 2010
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has in its latest decision G 1/07 of 15 February 2010 provided guidelines on the exception to patentability on methods for treatment of the body by surgery. The purpose of this exclusion is to free the medical profession from constraints by patents. The context of...
Tags: Enlarged Board of Appeal, European patent, patentability
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