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On 18 June 2025, the European Patent Office's Enlarged Board of Appeal issued their keenly awaited G1/24 decision clarifying the rules of interpretation for patent claims when assessing patentability. The Board decided that the "descriptio...
Different Unitary Patents can have different geographical coverage. The Unitary Patent states are fixed when a Unitary Patent is registered during the grant stage of a European patent. Countries that subsequently become Unitary Patent state...
The recent EPO appeal decision T0589/22 discusses the requirement of plausibility in a diagnostic method case, but also provides a cautionary tale regarding defining a patient group in a claim. At the European Patent Office, for a therapeutic ap...
The European Patent Office has announced that the validation agreement with Laos signed in May 2024 will enter into force on 1 April 2025. From this date, it will be possible to obtain protection in 46 countries by means of a single Europe...
Green means go…? The drive for sustainability across all industries is constantly yielding new technologies. However, it is not only in brand new ideas that businesses are striving to make progress. The improvement and optimisation of existing techno...
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