Author: Sofia Willquist

Recruitment of Judges to the UPC during May

According to the Report of the 15th Preparatory Committee meeting of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the recruitment of

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Making well founded decisions about opting out…

 …of the Unified Patent Court and requesting Unitary Effect for your European Patent The benefit of requesting Unitary Effect

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Revised PACE programme from 1 January 2016

The programme for accelerated prosecution of European Patent Applications (PACE) allows applicants to request that the European Patent Office

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Exclusive competence of the UPC – is it time to develop opt-out strategies?

The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA), “the Court”, will enter into force four months after the 13th

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Change on climate and fast-tracking green innovations

A while ago I wrote a blog post about being profitable and still doing good things for the climate.

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Crowdsourcing or a maker – do you need to care about IP?

In recent year’s crowdsourcing, i.e. inviting a community to take part in developing a new product or service has

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Unified Patent Court – one step closer to opening the Court

On October 1 2015, a Protocol to the UPC Agreement was signed by first seven member states . It

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Can innovative clean tech companies save the world…and still be profitable?

Well, as we all know, innovation and research and development usually cost a lot of money, and the simplest

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Patents for protecting others from harm?

Well that would be really nice, wouldn’t it? My daughter came home from school a few weeks ago and

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Will there be any difference in the oral hearings between the EPO and the UPC?

Anyone who has been attending an oral proceeding at the EPO, either as an observer or as an active

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