Costa Rica has signed a landmark validation agreement with the European Patent Office (EPO). This milestone makes Costa ...
Context: The Unified Patent Court (UPC) provides a monthly caseload update on its website. Last month, we highlighted pa...
On 10 October, the Council of the European Union adopted legislative acts under the design package: the revised directiv...
Since June 2024, the various divisions of the UPC have been issuing more and more decisions on the merits in infringemen...
In August, Uruguay's parliament approved accession to the Budapest Treaty, which has been in force since 1977 and includ...
As of 22 July 2024, the National Directorate of Intellectual Property of Paraguay (DINAPI) is part of DESIGNclass. The I...
In early May, InterDigital achieved a spectacular victory with an injunction against Lenovo from Munich Regional Court. ...
On 17 April, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued a decision regarding the change of language of proce...
MILAN/ROME, April 9 (Reuters) - Italy's government is mulling tougher penalties for crimes using Artificial Intelligence...
The European Commission (EC) recently proposed a series of targeted actions to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing ...
Egg carton manufacturer Brødrene Hartmann has filed a lawsuit against Omnipac at the UPC, shortly before Easter. The Da...
March 19 (Reuters) - Lawmakers in a EU parliamentary committee on Tuesday voted to extend the exclusivity period for new...
March 19 (Reuters) - The European Patent Office (EPA) received a record number of patent applications last year, with th...
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a new regulation for standard essential patents. Previously, the EU Commi...
The EPO Boards of Appeal have revoked several patents belonging to Nevro, following oppositions from competitors Boston ...
Two companies that do not manufacture their own products have filed their first lawsuits with the UPC. Network System Te...
BRUSSELS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - EU draft rules aimed at avoiding spats over patents essential to technologies for telecoms ...
After nearly 50 years and various attempts to have a ‘unified patent system’ in Europe, on 1 June 2023 we saw the dawn...
JCB and Manitou had been in dispute about telehandler designs, with the British manufacturer alleging that the French co...
FRANKFURT, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The European Patent Office declared a contested mRNA patent owned by Moderna (MRNA.O) inva...
25.10.2023 Today, the European Patent Office (EPO) published a new patent insight report on mRNA technologies. The repor...
The EPO is not permitted to reject patent applications based on the applicants not being identical to those in the prior...
The District Court of Munich ruled that Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) is infringing on a patent held by Broadcom (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:...
On September 26, the European Patent Office (EPO) made the decision that OPPO's EP3624524 patent on "wireless communicat...
Following several months of deliberation, the Italian goverment has made several revisions to its Industrial Property Co...
Imaging product distributor Agfa has filed an infringement suit against luxury brand Gucci before the UPC local division...
In the long-running dispute with Novartis over breast cancer drug Afinitor, generic drug manufacturers have now scored a...
Pharmaceutical manufacturers can sue competitors for market exclusivity for an orphan drug. This was the outcome of a de...
The Unified Patent Court is seeing its first major dispute over mobile communications and SEPs. Panasonic has filed seve...
Kindermann has cemented its success in the Netherlands against competitor Barco with a decision from The Hague Court of ...