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08-Nov-12 -
New on the Kluwer Patent Blog - Plant protection in Europe: a seamless fit no more?
EPO practice on patenting plants knows two exclusions that are defined in Art. 53(b) EPC: the exclusion of “plant varieties”, and the exclusion of “essentially biological processes for the production of plants”. {p}
29-Oct-12 -
New on the Kluwer Patent Blog - CJEU on Jurisdiction for Negative Declaratory Actions
On 25 October 2012, the Cort of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered a decision on the question of the scope of the "place of tort" as regards the jurisdiction for negative declaratory actions.
19-Oct-12 -
New on the Kluwer Patent Blog - EU Patent Makes Next Step
On 27 September 2012, a new consolidated version of the Draft Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (Document 14268/12) was (finally) published. The consolidated text includes some of the amendments agreed upon on 5 December 2011 as well as on the 29/30 June 2012 EU Council summit, and also presents further amendments and quite a few corrections in terms of language.{p}{br}
18-Sep-12 -
New on the Kluwer Patent Blog - Draft New Regulation on Border Measures
On 3 July 2012, the European Parliament (EP) adopted the Commission’s proposal for a new Regulation on "Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property" (COM(2011)0285) at first reading. The proposal, including many amendments to the current Regulation, is the provisional position of the EP subject to further negotiations.{p}{p}
31-Aug-12 -
New on the Kluwer Patent Blog - The Scope of the Bolar Exemption
Dr. Esther Pfaff and Dr. Clemens Tobias Steins, both attorneys-at-law in Hoffmann · Eitle's patent litigation & licensing group, report on two recent decisions by the Regional Court in Duesseldorf (Germany) and the Higher Regional Court in Gdansk (Poland) concerning the Bolar exemption and the experimental-use exemption.
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