Patents, Intellectual Property Protection, Pending Legislation

Expected Changes to IP Policy under the Second Trump Administration

Ropes & Gray LLP on 1/13/2025

Intellectual property (“IP”) policy does not weigh heavily on most voters’ minds, and so is not often addressed in presidential campaigns. This past campaign was no different – President-elect Donald Trump did not expressly...more

A sneak peek at China’s long-awaited new draft Patent Law

Hogan Lovells on 12/13/2018

On 5 December 2018, the latest draft of the Chinese Patent Law was presented to China’s State Council (i.e. the executive body of China’s central government) during a meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang (see here for a...more

Advances in Polish IP law, part 1: Patents – Indirect infringement, limitation of scope & state of the art searches

Hogan Lovells on 1/18/2018

The bill amending the Industrial Property Law, published on 14 November 2017, introduces important changes with respect to patent protection. The bill adapts the Polish provisions to the European Patent Convention, as well as...more

Brexit Bill - Impact on patents

Hogan Lovells on 11/15/2017

The UK government’s draft EU Withdrawal Bill (the “Brexit Bill“) aims to incorporate EU directives and regulations into UK domestic law in their current form immediately following Brexit (“Retained EU Law“). This article...more

Draft UPC laws continue progress through German parliament

Hogan Lovells on 3/9/2017

Today, at 2:05 am (CET), the European Patent Package passed another milestone towards coming into effect. The bills regarding the law amending the German patent law in respect to the European Patent Package and the law...more

Intellectual Property Newsletter - September/October 2015

King & Spalding on 9/29/2015

PTAB Update on Inter Partes Review - On August 19, 2015, the Director of the USPTO released a blog post reporting on the state of post-grant review proceedings created by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 and...more