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Netherlands: how strategic EPO patent prosecution can intentionally enhance FTO uncertainty for third parties
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… Article 67 of the European Patent Convention (EPC), which … paraphrased – that a European patent application shall, from the … date on which any patents resulting therefrom will expire … patent application, some nuances need to be made.
Prosecution before the EPO …
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Specialist chapter: How to navigate EPO opposition procedures and patent challenges in Europe
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
In summary
This article examines patent protection at the European Patent Office (EPO) and the process … patents.
Any person wishing to object to a patent granted by the EPO … reach a settlement with the patentee is not necessarily straightforward.
In …
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Germany: effects of the UPC and national patent courts’ coexistence
18 Sep 2025 12:52 GMT
… make opt-out declarations for patents or patent applications for which the … Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), which is quite a feat … infringement issues related to European patents validated in non-UPC countries …
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Greece: navigating patent enforcement, litigation strategies and third-party challenges
18 Sep 2025 12:52 GMT
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Unitary patents and the Unified Patent Court
Referenced … patents because European patents are granted after substantial examination by the European Patent Office (EPO … ) regarding novelty and inventive step.
Unitary patents …
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Türkiye: a comprehensive guide to patent prosecution under the Turkish Industrial Property Law
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
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Maintenance information and remedies
Patentability of Pharmaceutical and Biotech Inventions … making a single European patent application to the European Patent Office. Currently there are 39 … of the patent in the language of proceedings before the EPO. It …
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Specialist chapter: UPC litigation trends, the rise of revocation actions and counterclaims and advantages over EPO opposition and German nullity proceedings
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
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Comparison to EPO opposition proceedings
Comparison … arise with bundle patents (European patents validated in each … before Local Divisions.
Patent owners filing infringement … proceedings, patent owners traditionally defend their patents not only …
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Specialist chapter: Two years of the UPC as mainstay of European patent litigation
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… a pivotal role in global patent litigation strategies for businesses … of Appeal
Harmonisation of substantive patent laws
What’s next? … Yunnan Tobacco International Co, Ltd (EPO – Enlarged BoA)
Plant-e … 2025) over 63,000 unitary patents[3] had been registered, …
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United Kingdom: the evolution of patent infringement by equivalents with UPC comparative analysis
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… of the patent have concluded that the patentee nonetheless intended … the assessment of infringement. Patents for Inventions, Blanco White, … constitute infringement of the patent with equivalent means.
This … the patentee had made it clear to the EPO that …
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Poland: UPC asserts jurisdiction over Polish patent disputes despite non-membership
18 Sep 2025 12:51 GMT
… shift, with the Unified Patent Court (UPC) flexing its … .
Unified Patent Court asserts jurisdiction over patent infringements in Poland … of, among others, the EPO and many EU member … of a patent provides a detailed analysis of the patentability criteria. …
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Tenax Therapeutics Announces European Patent Office Intention to Grant Patent Covering Use of Levosimendan in PH-HFpEF
16 Sep 2025 11:00 GMT
… today announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has notified Tenax of … North America. This patent protects an important commercial … It builds on multiple patents already issued in the … may qualify for European patent supplementary protection certificates ( …