Published: March 5, 2025 Unified Patent Court’s first decision on infringement by equivalence A recent decision by a Court of First Instance of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has set out...
Published: February 20, 2025 UPC claims jurisdiction on infringement in the UK The UK is not involved in the Unified Patent Court (UPC). However, this did not prevent the UPC from...
Published: February 5, 2025 G2/24 – Can intervening infringers gain “appellant” status? The Enlarged Board of Appeal will decide upon the status granted to intervening infringers in Appeal proceedings, which...
Published: February 5, 2025 UK Court of Appeal blocks the potential for UK second medical use SPCs No second medical use SPCs in the UK As reported previously, following an appeal lodged by Merck Serono...
Published: December 13, 2024 UK Supreme Court set to rule on patentability of AI The UK Supreme Court has granted Emotional Perception AI permission to appeal a decision of the UK Court of...
Published: November 19, 2024 Supreme Court reaches decision in Sky v SkyKick case The long-awaited Supreme Court judgment of Sky v SkyKick was released on 13 November 2024. The decision addresses...
Published: October 29, 2024 T56/21 – No legal basis for description adaptation at the EPO The EPO’s insistence that the description be amended to conform to the claims (“description adaptation”) before a European...
Published: October 17, 2024 When is a second medical use claim not a second medical use claim? A recent decision by an EPO Board of Appeal provides guidance on drafting claims to the therapeutic use...
Published: September 24, 2024 G2/21: Life after the decision In G2/21, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) clarified when a technical effect can be used to support...
Published: September 5, 2024 T 2360/19 further confirms the EPO’s U-turn regarding the standard for assessing the legal right to claim priority In our previous article, we outlined how the Enlarged Board of Appeal decisions G1/22 and G/22 indicated that...
Published: August 30, 2024 The EPO relaxes the standard for assessing the legal right to claim priority At the end of 2023, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) at the EPO issued its decision on...
Published: August 5, 2024 Unified Patent Court (UPC) Central Division issues its first revocation judgment On 16 July 2024, just over a year after the UPC opened its doors, the Munich Central Division...
