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Publications - Newletters and Briefing Notes
Patent
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- Draft EPO Guidelines-Early Election of Matter to be Searched-Early Search Responses
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- Transitional provisions mean that no restricted time period for filing divisional applications will expire – provided the immediate parent application is still pending - before 1 October 2010.
- “Voluntary” Divisionals.
- “Voluntary” Divisionals – Branched Sequences.
- “Mandatory” Divisionals.
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- European Patent Office Annual Report For 2008
- Overall Growth in 2008
- Processing of European Patent Applications
- Top 25 Filing Countries – Growth in Applications in 2008
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- 1 Divisional Applications
- 2 Plurality of Independent Claims, and Clarity and Conciseness of the Claims
- 3 Mandatory Response to the Extended European Search Report
- 4 Mandatory Response to the PCT Report of Applications where EPO acted as ISA or IPEA
- 5 Identification of Amendments
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- European Patent Office Annual Report - Continued Growth
- Processing of European Patent Applications by the EPO
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- The London Agreement - Entry into force on 1 May 2008
- Significant cost savings available
- Future developments
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- Preliminary Notice: New levels of EPO Official Fees will apply from 1 April 2008.
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- European Patent Office Annual Report - More Growth
- Overall Growth
- Processing of European Patent Applications by the EPO
- 32 Contracting States - Member Countries of the European Patent System
- Top Filing Countries - European Patent Applications 2006 (2005)
- Top 25 Filing Companies - European Patent Applicatons 2006 (2005)
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- New Member Country of the European Patent System on 1 January 2008
- EPC 2000 - in force from December 2007
- The London Agreement - expected to be in force in the first half of 2008
- Norway - New Member Country of the European Patent System on 1 January 2008
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- Overall Growth Almost 8% in 2006
- Users of the PCT
- Providers of PCT Services
- Top PCT Applicants (Applications Published in 2006)
- Top PCT Filing Countries
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- Problems Resolved by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO
- Questions
- Answers
- In Detail - The Decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal concerning EPO Divisional Practice
- European Divisional Applications - Questions and Answers Summarized
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- Entry into force
- Article 54 (3) documents
- Medical use claims
- Doctrine of equivalents
- Post-grant amendment
- Review by enlarged board of appeal
- Procedural changes
- Priority claim
- Obtaining a filing date
- Transitional provisions
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- The European Patent Office has announced increases to some of its fees. The increases will apply to fee payments made on or after 1 April 2006. The table lists the main fees affected by the increases.
- Early action to avoid the fee increases?
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- Inherently Unpatentable? - Recent EPO Board of Appeal Decisions on "Technical Character"
- T0914/02 (General Electric) - Mental Acts - Mere "technical considerations" are insufficient to establish technical character, tangible technical implementation is required - Complexity does not disqualify consideration as mental act - "As such" distinction may not apply to mental acts
- T531/03 (Catalina Marketing) - Ignoring non-technical aspects when assessing inventive step is a requirement of the EPC - TRIPS does not mean that non-technical aspects should be considered
- T125/04 (Comparative Visual Assessments) - Presentation of Information - Commputer program - Discounting non-technical aspects when assessing inventive step - Normal use of computer - Obvious implementation which provides no inventive step
- T858/02 (Lucent) - Presentation of Information - Format or structure of a message is distinct from message content and is not automatically excluded from patentability
- T659/04 (Sony) - Presentation of information - Record medium carrying a signal recorded by a new modulation method - New data format - New technical effect (technical character) - Record medium not automatically excluded from patentability
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- Trends in International (PCT) Patent Applications
- Continued Growth
- PCT Receiving Offices (RO's) - % of Total Applications Received in 2004
- PCT International Search Authorities (ISA's) % of Searches Handled
- PCT International Preliminary Examination Authorities (IPEA's) of Examination Handled
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- Member countries of the European patent system
- New member country of the European patent system
- Extended European search report procedure now applies to new applications
- Related fee changes
- No common European Union position on software patentability
- Member countries of the European Union (European Community)
- The proposed Community Patent
- Community Trade Marks and Community Designs
- EP facts and figures
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- Comments on European Patent Office annual report for 2004
- New filing highs - more applications processed
- Top filing countries: European patent applications 2004
- Top filing companies: European patent applications 2004
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- European divisional patent applications
- Fatal consequences?
- Cascading European divisional applications - limited options?
- Other recent decisions relating to European divisional applications
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- European Patent Office fee, rule and procedural changes
- Summary of new EPO fees effective in 2005
- Summary of EPO rule and procedural changes effective in 2005
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- Changes to United Kingdom patent law and practice
- Late declarations of priority
- Filing date
- Missing parts of the description and/or drawings
- Reinstatement and Restoration
- Other notable changes coming into force later in 2005
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- Disclosure of search results
- Examination opinions and abbreviated examination reports
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- Disclaimer practice at the EPO clarified - G1/03 and G2/03
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- Patentability of diagnostic methods referred to enlarged Board of Appeal - G1/04
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- Test for priority clarified by enlarged Board of Appeal - G2/98
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- EC directive on enforcement of intellectual property rights
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