Posts Tagged: epo
EPO Life Sciences Seminar
The first ever EPO Life Sciences Seminar will be held following the AIPLA Spring Meeting. Attendees will learn about the most recent developments at the EPO including …
Inventors inspired by humpback whales make a more efficient wind turbine
Whales show great efficiency, maneuverability and speed for their size and weight. It was this efficiency that fascinated biologist Frank Fish. He suspected the rugged shape of …
Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Annual Report Shows Continued Growth of U.S. Patent Applications in Europe
The European Patent Office announced that U.S. companies and inventors filed 5.8% more patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2017 than in the previous year. …
António Campinos elected next EPO President
The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation has elected António Campinos to succeed Benoît Battistelli as President of the European Patent Office (EPO). His …
EPO ready for the first Unitary Patent as soon as the ratification requirements are met
One of the great aspects of the Unitary Patent is that it follows the normal EPO procedure up to grant. And indeed, the search and the examination …
Exclusive with Grant Philpott: Patenting Computer Implemented Inventions in Europe
We try to be precise and stick to CII because “software” in itself is a term which lacks precision. It can refer to a high level program, …
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Patents: A Survey
Given the broad range of countries deploying UAVs and the large number of applications for UAVs, we took a look at patent data from the last 20 years (1997 …
The To DO List for the Unitary Patent Package
The sunrise period for opting out traditional European patents is planned to start on 1 September 2017. Since such opt-outs will now be done electronically through the UPC case …
European Patent Office grants more patents to US companies than ever before
The number of patents granted to US companies by the European Patent Office (EPO) grew by 46.7% in 2016, the highest increase in ten years, and a new record …
Flexible problem-solution analysis for drafters with Europe in mind
The problem-solution paradigm has become a cornerstone of patentability in Europe. If the invention cannot be reduced to the format of a technical solution to a technical …
The quest for patent quality: European inventive step and US obviousness
In Europe and the US, patentability depends on a showing of inventiveness that is based on similar legal requirements but practice differs substantially and the resulting patent …
Minimizing costs while ensuring foreign patent maintenance fees are timely paid
A few years ago, a clearly irritated client asked me why European maintenance fees were so expensive. Apparently, he had consulted the EPO schedule of fees and …
Improving efficiency of the examination process for patents worldwide
The IP5 is the name given to a forum of the five largest intellectual property offices in the world that was set-up to improve the efficiency of …
Record year in 2015 for EPO patent filings on big increases from U.S., Chinese companies
The European Patent Office (EPO) announced earlier today that the overall number of European patent applications filed at the EPO rose in 2015 to 160,000. This represents an increase …
After Searching: Patent Filing Options and PCT ISAs
According to WIPO data, USPTO, EPO and KIPO are major ISAs for U.S. applicants; about 94% of intentional searches have been done by these three patent offices. …
