Category: Insights

Software related inventions at the Enlarged Board of Appeals

It is now almost a year since the President of the EPO referred four questions relating to the patentability

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Is the era of cascading divisionals coming to an end?

Filing a divisional used to be a common procedure before oral proceedings as well as before grant of a

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Changes to the German Intellectual Property Laws

A series of changes to the German intellectual property laws was recently passed by the German parliament. The reforms

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Utility models are not what they used to be, at least not in Germany

The German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) has ruled that there cannot be any difference between patents and utility models in

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Is your supplier really cheap or just a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

It is well known that many companies, for cost reasons, choose to manufacture and buy products in low-cost countries,

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Enforcement in the East II – Why should I patent in Russia?

This is a second blog post on patent enforcement in Eastern countries. Having already discussed China, we now turn

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Enforcement in the East I: What’s the use of a Chinese patent?

In recent years, many of the former planned economies in the East have put state-of-the-art IPR legislation in place.

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Centocor (Johnson & Johnson) awarded the largest patent verdict in U.S. history

1.67 billion U.S. dollars, $1.16 billion in lost profit, and $504 million in royalties. That’s what Centocor is awarded

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Are trademarks protected on the Internet?

That’s a question I am often asked by my clients. Every time new top domains are launched many clients

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Recent Trends in Chinese IP enforcement

As has previously been mentioned on this blog, Schneider Electric Low Voltage (Tianjin) Co. Ltd., a joint venture of

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