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THIS BLOG IS DISCONTINUED.
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MY FURTHER BLOG ARTICLES ON IP MATTERS CAN BE FOUND HERE:blog.ksnh.eu/en [English]blog.ksnh.eu/de [German]...
New Developments: European Patent With Unitary Effect, EU Patent Jurisdiction
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Under the date of May 26, 2011, the EU Council has published Document 10629/11 titled Proposal for a Regulation of the Council and the European Parliament implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection inc...
Some Preliminary Remarks On COM(2011) 287 Provisional
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Galaxy of IP rights ... as seen by EU CommissionToday the EU Commission has published a provisional version of Document COM(2011) 287 titled Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social C...
OHIM Set To Become Official Host For European Observatory On Counterfeiting And Piracy
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OHIM, Alicante (soon to be augmented into an enforcement agency)Today, the EU Commission has published a Proposal for a Regulation of the European parliament and the Council on entrusting the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Mar...
EU Commission: A Burst Of Activity Concerning Intellectual Property Politics
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Today, the EU Commission has adopted a strategy intended to to revamp the legal framework in which Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) operate.See also this Draft here. The IPR Strategy sets out a series of short- and long-term key policy actions in...
Will There Be A "Virtual Schengen Border" Justified By Intellectual Property Enforcement?
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Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Mr Michel Barnier is EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. The Commission department under his political responsibility is the Internal Market and Services Directorate Gene...
UK: Hargreaves Review on Intellectual Property And Growth Released Today
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On November 10, 2010, Official announcement had been made to the effect that Professor Ian Hargreaves shall lead an independent review into how the intellectual property system in the United Kingdom can better drive growth and innovation. UK Intellec...
EU Patent Is Dead! Long Live "European Patent With Unitary Effect."
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Recently the European Commission has published Document COM(2011) 215/3 titled Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection. Counci...
EU Patent: The Smallest Of All Perceivable Solutions Is Coming
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The dice is cast: Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the EU issued a damning verdict to pending plans for creating a new trans-EU Patent Court on the basis of an international agreement. Today, the EU Council has nodded through a license for 25 of 27...
The Court Of Justice Of The EU Kills Patent Court Proposal.
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In an earlier posting I had reported on the Opinion 01/09 - Statement by the Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the European Patent and the Community Patent Court as planned by the EU Council; see my earlier...
EPO Publishing Something Like A "White Paper" In Exchange For Personal Data
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Today, the European Patent Office (EPO) has made available (@EPOorg on Twitter) a second edition of An overview of the national patent litigation systems in Europe available for download on-line. The text provides an overview of the national patent l...
EU Enhanced Co-Operation In Unitary Patent Matters To Be Voted In EU-Parliament
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The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has published Document 5635/11 conveying a Summary of the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament, held in Strasbourg on January 20, 2011. The meeting wa...
Long Live The EU Patent - But A New EU Patent Court System Is Dead?
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Today I was able to gain access to EU Commission Document COM(210) 790 final - kudos to @EUpexian on Twitter. The paper is titled Proposal for a Council Decision authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protectio...
BREAKING: 'Small' EU Patent To Come Soon
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I just spotted the above-pictured Tweet of Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for enterprise and streamlining policy of Belgium. The linked Document says: "After more than 40 years breakthrough in realizing EU Patent supporters put their ow...
Will There Ever Be Unanimity On An EU Patent?
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Interpreter in the EU Parliament (Strasbourg)Earlier this month I reported on an epic failure of the EU Council to reach a political agreement on the question of languages and translations for the planned EU Patent. The representative of the Spanish...
UK: Mr Ian Hargreaves To Lead Independent Review Into How IP System Can Better Drive Growth And Innovation
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Mr Ian HargreavesOn November 11, 2010, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) has announced that Professor Ian Hargreaves will lead an independent review into how the intellectual property system can better drive growth and innovation. A press...
Spanish Government Knocking Down Compromise On EU Patent Languages Regime
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Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for enterprise and streamlining policy of Belgium, presiding over EU Council meetingAs already reported yesterday on this Blog, today there has been an extraordinary session of the EU Council - Competitiveness (I...
Second Peer-To-Patent Pilot Phase Has Begun - UK-IPO Might Join Later
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The Peer-to-Patent project (also known as the Community Patent Review project) is an initiative that seeks reform of the patent system by gathering public input in a structured, productive manner. Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve the quality of issued...
Yet Another Round Of ACTA Negotiations In Sight
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As reported earlier, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement. After a series of draft text leaks in 2008,...
Yet Another Approach To Reach EU Patent Compromise
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As it was reported by my colleague Volker 'Falk' Metzler on his Visae Patentes Blog earlier this day, there are indications that the well-informed EurActiv network has seen a new compromise text proposed by the Belgian Presidency, which is hoped to...
