HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 03/24

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we continue our series of articles focusing on the new package of draft EU regulations, with a first article on the prop...

The meaning of “admissibly raised” in Article 12(4) RPBA

There is little case law on the application of the “admissibly raised and maintained” part of Article 12(4) of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (2020). HOFFMANN EITLE’S London partner...

EPO Appeal case provides further guidance on claim interpretation

Can the description be used for claim interpretation, and if so, when? This question has been a major topic of recent EPO case law. Lasse Weinmann, Leo Polz and Sebastian Giese of HOFFMANN EITLE’s...

Burden of Proof on Sufficiency of Disclosure – Does it automatically shift between instances at the EPO?

Sufficiency of disclosure or the lack thereof is a ground of opposition before the EPO and thus often one major battleground in EPO opposition proceedings, in particular for patents where compositi...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 12/23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we begin by discussing a groundbreaking decision by the UK Patents Court which held that an artificial neural network in...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 9/23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we begin a series of articles on a new package of draft EU regulations, with a first article on a draft regulation on st...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 6/23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we first look at how computer-implemented inventions in the field of mechanical engineering and applied physics can be p...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 3/23

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this first issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly for 2023, we begin by concluding our four-part series on the patenting of computer-implemented inventions and artif...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 12/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we continue with our series of articles addressing patenting computer-implemented inventions and artificial intelligence...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 9/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we continue with our series of articles addressing patenting computer-implemented inventions (CII) and artificial intell...