Novelty
Sufficiency of disclosure
Inventive step
The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) recently issued its decision G4/19 relating to double patenting
The Ideas Powered for Business SME Fund is a 20 million Euro grant scheme created to help European obtain intellectual property rights
The French patent office just launched an accelerated procedure to grant applications dealing with COVID-19
The GCC (comprising Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Koweit, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar) stops accepting new patent applications.
A delay for entry into force of unitary patent system is to be expected
The French patent office (INPI) and the Japanese Patent Office (JPTO) will enter as of 01/01/2021 into a PPH agreement