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Tea and Sympathy? Baroness Wilcox's appearance before the Scrutiny Committee on the unitary patent proposals (Part II)
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Mr. Kelvin Hopkins MP Mr. Kelvin Hopkins MP turned to the question of the impact assessment and referred to the issue that the Committee had heard the previous week that the impact assessment was out of date given that the EU was no longer going to...
Tea and Sympathy? Baroness Wilcox's appearance before the Scrutiny Committee on the unitary patent proposals (Part I)
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At 4:20 PM when the Committee adjourned, thisis probably what the Houses of Parliament looked like... Last Wednesday, a week after the first hearing of evidence by the House of Commons Scrutiny Committee given by the IP Bar Association, CIPA and EPL...
So, confidentially, what DO you think of WIPO?
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A rare first: the IPKat keeps his comments on WIPO to himself You may have been waiting for years to tell the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) what you think of it. If so, your chance has come. WIPO informs...
Is overlooking a fact an error of principle?
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MMI Research Ltd v Cellxion Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 7 is a rare appeal that turned entirely on the facts, and yet it is not necessary to understand the invention to understand the appeal, except to say that it is embodied in a machine. There were two i...
The patent system: some thoughts on stakeholders and users
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Lest anyone accuse this Kat of getting into an awful argument and then trying to change the subject, he states at the outset that he writes with both urgency and frequency on more or less all aspects of intellectual property law, so the switch in the...
Apple's legal action against HTC part of "proxy war" with Google
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The computer technology giant Apple has won the latest round in a long patent war with competitors who use the rival Android Operating system developed by Google. The latest battle forces Asia's second biggest mobile phone maker HTC to strip off some...
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...
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...
Europe ducks ‘EU patent’ debate
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They bottled it: EU leaders were due to talk about ways to improve Europe’s hotpotch intellectual property regime on Friday but thought better of it. The item was put on the afternoon agenda because industry ministers had decided before Christm...
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...
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...
EU Patent: Translation Into 'Language Customary In The Field Of International Technological Research'
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On October 06, the Belgian EU Presidency has sent a paper to the EU Council which is titled Proposal for a Council Regulation on the translation arrangements for the European Union patent - Political orientation and which now has been made public as...
Why is Europe falling behind? Look at EU patent
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The governments of the EU member states meet in the Council of the European Union, Monday to Tuesday (11 to 12 October 2010) in Luxembourg. Yes, even when the Council presidency is in Belgian hands (Brussels), the October Council meetings are held in...
EU Advocates General of European Court of Justice (ECJ, CURIA) Find Proposed Common Patent System Incompatible with EU Treaties
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This is a bit late but the original opinion was in French and only released in English translation a few days ago. The Council of the European Union requested an opinion from the Advocates General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ, CURIA) on the...
The Budweisers Should Make Up - And Cheers!
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One of the globe’s most prolonged David-and-Goliath legal battles partially drew to a close Thursday whenEurope’s highest court ruled that Anheuser-Busch InBev NV can’t register the Budweiser beer trademark across the entire European Union, giv...
EU patents and the monster treaty
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This TFEU is a monster. I do commiserate with the Judges who are confronted with the inescapable duty to make sense of all that.said Axel H Horns in a post on EU patent litigation, in which he summarised some member states' positions in a hearing in...
IAM Magazine - IAM Blog - German Supreme Court software patent decision "not a landmark ruling", says expert
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IAM Magazine - IAM Blog - German Supreme Court software patent decision "not a landmark ruling", says expert...
Progress on Patent Reform in the European Union (EU)
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James DeGiulio writes at Patent Docs in Europe Takes Step Closer to Single EU Patent and Patent Court that:"On December 4, 2009, the European Competitiveness Council unanimously adopted a legislative package designed to create a single EU patent a...
European Patent Office (EPO) Official Journal January 2010 is Now Online
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The Official Journal of January 2010 of the European Patent Office (EPO) is now online here.
Reform of EU Patent Law
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The Council has agreed on a framework for reform of the EU patent law. The Council approves the idea of a European and EU Patents Court (EEUPC) that will have exclusive jurisdiction in respect of civil litigation related to the infringement and valid...
Patenting and Copyrights
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Greens are keen to see legislation keep pace with evolving technology and new ways of consuming eg music and film. [...]...
“The EU at its best: Breaking down barriers between nation states, empowering citizens, and taking the practical steps that will make their lives better.”
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Graham on “Patients Rights: A growing European concern and framework for action” during the 3rd EUROPEAN PATIENTS’ RIGHTS DAY 2009. April 22, 2009. “It is a great pleasure to be here today. The Active Citizenship Network has don...
