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Clarivate reveals Top 100 Global Innovators 2025
The Top 100 organizations generate $4.6 trillion in annual revenues, representing 4.4% of the global economy Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today revealed its 2025 ranked list of Top 100 Global Innovators – the organizations...
New continuation application fees: why and at what cost?
Earlier this year, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) instituted new fees related to the filing of continuation patent applications. As a refresher, a continuation application is a second or subsequent patent application filing that claims the benefit of an...
Register at Early Bird rate for ECTA 43rd Annual Conference ‘Bears on the Loose’ in Berlin!
Register now at Early Bird rates for the ECTA 43rd Annual Conference in Berlin on 18-21 June 2025! This year’s Conference 'Bears on the Loose' 🐻😎 celebrates Berlin’s heraldic bear and the city's vibrant atmosphere. With its melting pot of cultures, rich history, and...
Entrepreneur’s greedy eye casts at Apple’s pie
Apple Inc. is a company that hardly needs an introduction. Its assortment of iPhones are widely popular in Russia, and Apple holds countless patents to protect its technology. Entrepreneur Artashes Ikonomov filed and obtained patent No. 141791 in 2013 for a cell phone...
UK should move to making patenting of quantum computing easier: UK lags far behind Europe in IP law
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) may be discouraging innovation in Quantum Computing by making it harder to patent technology in this sector, says intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire. That risks driving developers of Quantum Computing to...
The Irish Government announces referendum on joining the UPC
The Irish Government has announced that it will hold a referendum on joining the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in June 2024. This news moves Ireland closer to becoming the 18th EU country to join the UPC and unitary patent (UP) system. The news was widely welcomed by the...
Chips and justice: PepsiCo’s battle over potato variety in India
PepsiCo, the world's second-largest food and beverage corporation, has finally won the long-term court battle against a group of Indian farmers concerning IP rights over its registered potato variety. Recently, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court Division Bench set aside a...
Delhi Court holds undue delay in passing the final order by the Patent Office is arbitrary
The court opined that this manner of dealing with a patent application was extremely arbitrary and whimsical and when the judgment was reserved on 29 September 2014, there was an obligation on the Hearing Officer to pass orders within a reasonable period. The time of...
UK banks lag US banks in innovation – only 290 patents filed in the last decade
The UK’s biggest banks have filed just a fraction of the patent applications of their American counterparts over the last 10 years, with the top five UK banks collectively applying for just 290 patents while the top 3 US banks collectively applied for 5,027, says...
New ECTA Patent Committee: mission, vision, and destiny
ECTA has created a Patent Committee. This is quite a surprising move considering that ECTA has the reputation of being an association specialized in other IP rights, particularly trademarks. At first glance, it is surprising that a reputed trademark association like...
Novartis v. Natco Pharma Limited: pre-grant opponents in patent examination process
Patent law is characterized by a delicate balance between fostering innovation and ensuring that patents are granted on meritorious grounds. Central to this balance is the mechanism of pre-grant opposition, designed to facilitate a rigorous examination of patent...
Embracing DOCX and enabling AI: the future of patent filings at the USPTO in 2024
After several, long delays, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seems to be finally moving forward with implementing the DOCX format requirement for certain patent applications. In its effort to modernize and streamline its systems, the USPTO is...
Thaler v. Comptroller: the UKSC rules that AI cannot be an ‘inventor’
To the surprise of no one, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) has finally ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be an inventor for the purposes of UK patent law. This judgment accords with the decisions of the lower courts in the UK and the initial ruling of the...
Why so opaque? Transparency and the Unified Patent Court
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Rules on public access were meticulously debated in the run-up to the UPC's launch. As a court, its task first and foremost should be to provide justice, and justice should be transparent. Right? This seemed to be the intention behind...
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