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A brighter future for the EU patent 11 EU member states have decided to move towards an EU patent

An ongoing lawsuit in the US has attracted a lot of attention worldwide. The American Civil Liberties Union has,

The language of proceedings used before the EPO can never be changed – this includes the language used before the

EPO is seeking to limit the submission of divisional applications, which would be a severe blow to small, newly

During the last decade, the debate in Europe regarding the patentability of human gene inventions has been heavily influenced

EPC 2000 came into effect on 13 December 2007, as a result of the first major amendment of the

I’d like to share with you a few ideas on a subject that is not entirely uncontroversial – not

Recently, the European Patent Office (EPO) introduced steep increases in patent claims fees. From April 1 2008, an excess