The Enlarged Board of Appeal faces its first referral of 2025. The EPO's highest instance must now decide on the office's current legal practice regarding description amendments. The case concerns
and China". The top five origins of EPO patent applications were the US, Germany, Japan, France and the Netherlands. China, ranked eighth on the list, filed 5,721 patent applications in 2015, an
The European Patent Office (EPO) is now accepting proposals for patent research grants for 2019. The funding scheme has been implemented by the EPO over the last two years as part of an effort to
The European Patent Office (EPO) has partnered with Serco Germany to develop services relating to the classification and reclassification of patent documentation. Serco has already received five work
company reserved the right to claim damages should the EPO revoke the patents. By the end of 2019, the EPO had indeed revoked all three patents-in-suit due to inadmissible extension. Subsequently, Glenmark
In the ongoing dispute over its highly successful weight-loss drug semaglutide, Novo Nordisk has suffered a further setback as the EPO revoked yet another patent from several under attack. After the
the revocation of that patent by the European Patent Office (EPO). It's a dramatic turn of events (or at least it would be dramatic if it wasn't just one of numerous lawsuits in the wider context). OPPO
product sufficiently similar to Engage 8400. The parties disagreed on whether the product belonged to the state of the art for inventive step purposes. In December 2018, the EPO rejected the