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The EPO are increasing their official fees on 1 April 2023. This fee increase is unusual in that the EPO has historically raised its fees every two years.
A recent decision from the EPO’s Technical Boards of Appeal (T2803/18) highlights a pitfall for applicants wishing to patent systems and methods
The EPO introduced the latest version of the Guidelines for Examination on 1 March 2023. Some of the revisions are highlighted below.
A recent decision from the EPO’s Boards of Appeal (T 0702/20) provides a practical example of where the boundary lies in terms of
After years of uncertainty in the timeline of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), it has just been announced that Germany will ratify
The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently ruled that patients in a clinical trial were not members of the public such that
The way of determining the compliance period of a UK divisional application is changing on 1 May 2023. From 1 May 2023
The EPO has recently issued a decision confirming that oral proceedings before examining divisions, the Legal Division, the Receiving Section and now,
As of 1 September 2022, the EPO are providing a new, free of charge, service that involves carrying out a top-up search
Plausibility: Insights from the G 2/21 preliminary opinion The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) referral G 2/21 will hopefully clarify the