- Provisional patent application
The Pacte Act of 2020 introduced a new industrial property right: the provisional patent application, which can be filed in France before the French patent office as…
Lao People’s Democratic Republic became the sixth validation country for European patent applications, after Morocco, the Republic of Moldova, Tunisia, Cambodia and Georgia.
The agreement took effect…
Articles 54(4) and 54(5) EPC, novelty of mode of administration, T 970/00
selected sub-range, novelty, inventive step, T 1688/20
EUIPO Board of Appeal has accepted the proof of publication date done only before the BoA after Cancellation Division rejected the declaration of invalidity as unfounded because of undated documents.…
Design 4594802-0005 for half boots was registered in 2018 and duly renewed when an application for invalidity was filed against it.
One of the prior shoes cited by the applicant for invalidity was…
Articles L612-8 and L612-9 of the French IP Code provide that the Ministry in charge of Defense is authorized to read any patent application that is filed before the French patent office and that the…
French patent law, more specifically Article L. 613-7 of the French IP code, provides a defense in case of infringement in France based on a French patent or a French part of a European patent: the…
Opposition has been filed against EUTM application COOL GANG. Opposition division concluded to likelihood of confusion, but some goods were found not similar.
In order to invalidate a RCD for jewellery having the shape of a lilac flower, the invalidity applicant submitted undated images of similar patterns: three images of jewellery, three photographs of…
