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…
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…
A patent is often defined as a "contract" between a state and the patentee, whereby the state grants the patentee a monopoly over the exploitation of the invention as protected in the patent for up to…
Double patenting, divisional application, clarity
Inventive step, technical problem, experimental data
Admissibility of deletion of a feature, Article 123(2) EPC
Exceptional circumstances, Article 13(2) RPBA , sufficiency of disclosure
Chinese patent office follows JPTO, USPTO, CIPO, INPI (Brazil) and KIPO with which INPI already has a PPH agreement
Standard of proof for assessment of novelty
Priority claim, Article 54(3) EPC, disclaimer
