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...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 6/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends,In this year's second issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we begin a series of articles on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) at the EPO. The...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 3/22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this first issue of Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly for 2022, we begin by concluding our two-part series on the Rules of Procedure of the EPO Boards of Appeal (RPBA) with...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 12/21

Dear Colleagues and Friends, This issue of Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly begins with a review of some of the legal provisions of the EPO's Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA), two years a...

HOFFMANN EITLE Quarterly Newsletter 9/21

Dear Colleagues and Friends, In this issue of the Hoffmann Eitle Quarterly, we begin with an article that revisits the recurring issue of the unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court, whose ent...