Introduction - The EU Patent Package (the Patent Package) consists of two related, but independent parts: a Unitary EU Patent (the Unitary Patent or UP) and a Unified Patent Court (the UPC). The new system is expected...more
Originally published in Forresters on November 25, 2012. Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel? - It is clear from an emerging practice of the European Patent Office (EPO) that they were not widely impressed...more
On 8 October 2011, the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) handed down a landmark judgment on the correct interpretation of Article 6(2)(c) of the Biotechnology Directive (98/44/EC) relating to the patentability...more