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French Patent & Trademark Attorneys - European Patent Attorneys - Representatives before EUIPO
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Appeals were filed by the patent proprietor (appellant I) and by the opponent (appellant II) against the opposition division's interlocutory decision that European patent No. 2 373 154, entitled "Barley and malt-derived beverages...[more]
The decision under appeal is the opposition division's decision rejecting the eight oppositions filed against European patent No. 2 269 604.The patent in suit stems from European patent application 10 1749 85.1, which was filed...[more]
The new version of Guidelines for Examination applicable as from March 1st, 2022 are available here.[more]
France design law offers, in addition to the classical design registration procedure to protect the appearance of a product or part of a product for shape, texture, ornamentation or aesthetics, a simplified design registration...[more]
The EPO has decided to introduce two measures to support access to the Unitary Patent.[more]
EPO published in Official Journal of January 2022 the new amounts of official fees applicable as of April 1st, 2022.See the new amounst here[more]
Acceptance of DAS Codes[more]
The deposit by Austria of its instrument of ratification launched entry into force of the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA).[more]
The French Supreme Court recently overturned its case law according to which the mere filing of a trademark application could amount to an infringing act.In order to comply with developments in case law of the CJEU, which...[more]
Communication by EPO of the certificate for a European patent[more]
CIPO joins USPTO and JPTO with which INPI already has a PPH agreement[more]
USPTO follows JPTO with which INPI already has a PPH agreement[more]
Slovenian government deposited its instrument of ratification for the Protocol on the Provisional Application of UPC Agreement on 15/10/2021.UPC could soon enter its set-up phase if a last country (probably Austria by end of...[more]
New norm ST.26 for sequence listings in patent applications will enter into force on 01/01/2022.It will be compatible with International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) database provider...[more]
The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) recently issued its decision G4/19 relating to double patenting[more]
The Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund is a 20 million Euro grant scheme created to help European obtain intellectual property rights[more]
The French patent office just launched an accelerated procedure to grant applications dealing with COVID-19[more]
The GCC (comprising Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Koweit, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar) stops accepting new patent applications.[more]
A delay for entry into force of unitary patent system is to be expected[more]
The French patent office (INPI) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPTO) will enter as of 01/01/2021 into a PPH agreement[more]
33 skippers take part in this new edition[more]
UK will leave EU after the transition period that ends on 31/12/2020. [more]
UK will leave EU after the transition period that ends on 31/12/2020. [more]
A recent decision from CJEU specified what is a first marketing authorisation[more]
A consolidated version of Ordinance 2020-306 was published on May 15, 2020.According to this new version, all delays expiring between March 12, 2020 and June 23, 2020 are extended up to July 23, 2020 if the initial delay was...[more]
Patentability of plants and animals exclusively obtained by essentially biological processes[more]
EPO further extended to June 2nd, 2020 all time limits expiring on or after March 15th, 2020.See updated information page of EPO here.[more]
EPO further extended to May 4th, 2020 all time limits expiring on or after March 15th, 2020.See updated information page of EPO here.[more]
EPO clarifies the date at which the new amounts of fees as from April 1st are due[more]
Due dates and delays during the outbreak[more]
Decree 2020-225 specifying the particulars of the new opposition proceedings against a granted French patent was published on March 8, 2020[more]
Order 2020-116 published on February 13, 2020 introduces new opposition proceedings for patents in France[more]
Law n°2019-486 dated 22/05/2019 relating to growth and transformation of businesses, referred to as PACTE Law, brings numerous changes to French patent law.[more]