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EPO appeal board establishes ‘on-sale bar’ with big implications for patent owners
04 Jul 2025 17:15 GMT
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The decision affects product launch strategies, application filing timings and the relationship between patents and trade secrets
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New WIPR Rankings spotlight UK legal market for patents work
03 Jul 2025 17:20 GMT
… contentious patent office actions.
WIPR’s newly released UK Patents Rankings 2025 … , with sector-specific listings for patents, trademarks and trade secrets. The … firms takes place at the European Patent Office (EPO), which one interviewee told WIPR …
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European Patent Office Clarifies Claim Interpretation
28 Jun 2025 01:06 GMT
… Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) has issued a new decision … the interpretation of patent claims when assessing the patentability of an invention … for claim interpretation when assessing patentability.
Notwithstanding the absence of clear …
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UMass Health Economist Lucy Xiaolu Wang Finds Regulatory Transparency Curbs ‘Patent Gaming’ in Pharmaceuticals
01 Jul 2025 04:52 GMT
… found no reduction in product patents or patents targeting new disease areas … also discussed guidelines by European Patent Office (EPO) and several EPO Board of Appeal cases …
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Biovica International receives European patent for its assay, DiviTum TKa to determine prognosis of cancer
30 Jun 2025 10:32 GMT
… announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted a new patent for the company … publication in the European Patent Bulletin.
The patent is titled Thymidine Kinase … checkpoint inhibitors. In addition, the patent expands our addressable market and …
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European Patent Office (EPO): Neeka and Leila Mashouf win the Nature Guardians prize at the Young Inventors Prize 2025 for turning CO₂ into essential materials
19 Jun 2025 08:26 GMT
… held today in Iceland, the European Patent Office (EPO) awarded the twin American sisters … EPO was founded with the aim of strengthening co-operation on patents … in Europe. Through the EPO's centralised patent granting …
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VoltSafe Closes $1.0 Million Equity Crowdfunding Campaign, Receives Key Patent on Flagship "Electrical Fingerprint" Technology
27 Jun 2025 17:15 GMT
… that the European Patent Office ("EPO") has granted a foundational patent for the … ; CEO, VoltSafe (Credit: VoltSafe)
"Patents are a passport to global … "electrical fingerprint". Using patented technology, VoltSafe has created the …
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How the EPO addresses public prior use in clinical trials and patentability obstacles for pharmaceutical inventions
27 Jun 2025 00:39 GMT
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This article explores how the European Patent Office (EPO) addresses public prior use in … also jeopardise the patentability of later filed patent applications. EPO jurisprudence applies a …
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AVACEN Announces Two New Patent Approvals for CATHSTA Device in Rapid Succession
27 Jun 2025 00:00 GMT
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On June 4, 2025, the European Patent Office (EPO) notified AVACEN of its intent … this second innovation through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) process, … patient outcomes through scientifically backed, patent-protected technologies.
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Crosstown raises $3M to boost Europe’s clean and independent energy future
04 Jul 2025 08:16 GMT
… , Crosstown secured a groundbreaking patent from the European Patent Office (EPO) for its inventive burner … all-in-one technology.
This patent reinforces Crosstown's leadership … turbine landscape with dozens of patents over 3 decades and therefore …