Both the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have confirmed that patent law on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean does not permit artificial intelligence (AI) to be identified as...more
Several initiatives and efforts have recently been introduced to spur production of needed products and encourage innovation to combat COVID-19 by either requesting or requiring a patent holder to refrain from asserting its...more
On Friday, March 20, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) ruled that the nation’s ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement is void because the German parliament (Bundestag) did not follow the...more
On April 26, 2018, which was designated World Intellectual Property Day, the United Kingdom ratified the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement. The UPC is a single patent court that will have jurisdiction in all European Union...more
The U.K. has voted, in a popular referendum, to leave the EU. The referendum is not legally binding and the result was extremely narrow: 51.9 percent in favor of leaving, 48.1 percent in favor of remaining. This partly...more
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The Federal Circuit and Congress have in recent years made it more difficult for plaintiffs to recover enhanced damages in patent infringement suits. This may have caused companies to erroneously assume that seeking an...more