13th Mar 2024
As reported previously, the EPO has confirmed that it will accelerate opposition proceedings when there are parallel pending infringement or revocation actions before a national court of a contracting EPC state or before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
12th Dec 2023
In the November 2023 issue of the European Patent Office (EPO) Official Journal, the EPO has confirmed that it will accelerate “parallel opposition proceedings” in the interest of “legal certainty and procedural efficiency, as well as high quality and uniformity in the European patent system”.
11th Dec 2023
There is no hiding from the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) has well and truly burst onto the scene. Although research into AI has been going on for decades, it is only within the last few years that we have witnessed an explosion of AI applications with profound implications.
20th Nov 2023
In a UK Patents Court case decided earlier this year, Gilead Sciences v NuCana, Gilead sought revocation of the UK designations of two of NuCana’s European patents, EP 2955190B1 and EP 3904365B1, from the same family. These patents covered NuCana’s anti-cancer drug acelarin. NuCana counterclaimed that their patents were infringed by Gilead’s anti-viral products containing the compound sofosbuvir.
13th Nov 2023
On 10 October 2023 the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) issued its decision on consolidated cases G1/22 and G2/22. The two cases raised several interesting points regarding entitlement to claim priority.
9th Nov 2023
A new joint study by the European Patent Office (EPO) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that start-ups which file applications for registered Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – including patents, trademarks, and designs – demonstrate a higher likelihood of securing funding from Venture Capital firms (VCs) and achieving favourable exit outcomes for their investors.
2nd Nov 2023
It has been five months since the Unified Patent Court opened its doors. Although the number of substantive actions filed at the new court is not quite what some commentators initially expected, there have been a steady number of actions filed by parties from all over the world across a wide range of technologies.
26th Sep 2023
The fifteenth episode of a 15-part series covering all things IP brought to you by Reddie & Grose and Executive IP.