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Annual Report 2024 of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
The Annual Report 2024 of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office has been published today. It is available in English, German, and French on the Boards' website. Delivering decisions of the highest quality continued to be a central priority in 2024. As in...
Certainty for businesses and choice for consumers as UK maintains IP rights regime
No legislative changes mean businesses can continue operating under the existing exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime without any new requirements. The UK+ regime protects creators and innovators while ensuring fair competition in the marketplace and...
Intellectual Property Salary Survey 2025
Caselton Clark shares a special edition of its 2025 Intellectual Property Salary Survey, providing a comprehensive analysis of salary and benefits trends over the past 10 years. The report covers various levels of seniority across the UK and parts of Europe. To access...
Crystal Crop v. Safex: Delhi High Court on Doctrine of Equivalents and prosecution history estoppel in patent disputes
In Crystal Crop Protection Ltd. v. Safex Chemicals India Ltd. & Ors., CS(COMM) 196/2024, Neutral Citation: 2025:DHC:3382, decided on May 7, 2025 by Hon’ble Mr Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court, the court refused to grant an interim injunction, holding...
Potter Clarkson appointed in landmark UK AI inventorship appeal
Appeal to be heard at the High Court in July 2025 could have major commercial ramifications for patents created with AI assistance or wholly by AI models. London - May 8, 2025 – Potter Clarkson, a leading intellectual property law firm, has been appointed by US-based...
IP asset deals: a blessing or a curse? Andreas Wietzke reports
Earlier this month, software company Blackberry announced it was selling its non-core (those relating to mobile devices and wireless networking) patent portfolio to Catapult IP Innovations Inc. for $600 million. While the patents included in the portfolio don’t relate...
European cloud infrastructure vendor Sardina Systems joins Open Invention Network patent non-aggression community
Synergy Research and Canalys, technology market research firms, report that the cloud infrastructure market grew by $50 billion in 2021, to more than $170 billion in revenue. A substantial amount of plumbing in private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure that...
ClearstoneIP launches new patent management technology for freedom-to-operate analysis
Silicon Valley Startup Digitizes FTO Workflows Setting a New Standard for Patent and R&D Teams ClearstoneIP, an intellectual property (IP) technology provider with offices in the U.S. and Europe, has officially launched Clearstone FTO, a cloud-based workflow...
Mewburn Ellis appoints Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer
IP firm announces new role alongside launch of Inclusion & Diversity Collaboration Group Intellectual property firm Mewburn Ellis recently announced the appointment of its Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, Robert Andrews, as well as the launch of its...
A new Code of Conduct for the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
A new Code of Conduct for the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office will enter into force on 1 July 2022. The new Code of Conduct contains standards for judicial conduct concerning, in particular, independence, integrity, impartiality, loyalty, diligence and...
New LexisNexis report highlights world’s top-performing innovation sectors and companies
‘Innovation Momentum: The Global Top 100’ is the first patent-based report to measure short-term innovation momentum, highlighting innovators with exceptional technological relevance for the future. Highlights Inaugural report points to how global themes such as the...
Final preparations for Europe’s new Unified Patent Court begin
Austria deposited its instrument of ratification on the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PAP-Protocol) on 18 January 2022. The PAP-Protocol has now entered into force. This means that the provisional application...
Supreme Court of India further extended the suspension of limitation period/timelines under general and special laws. LexOrbis reports
In view of the spike in new cases of Covid-19, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has once again suspended limitation periods and timelines under all general and special laws. As per the Order dated January 10, 2022 passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in an...
Open Invention Network expands patent protection covered under largest multilateral cross license in history
Funded by Google, IBM / Red Hat, NEC, Philips, Sony and Toyota, Open Invention Network was created to safeguard Linux from organizations looking to hinder open source growth and adoption through patent activities. Today, more than 3,600 business – developers,...
Crowell & Moring Releases Litigation Forecast 2022: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year
Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office. Cloudflare reports
Covid sparks surge in innovation with 5,070 new patent applications: Juliet Redhouse comments
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