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The European Patent Office’s recent conference offered interesting insights on data and the experiences opposition division members and patent attorneys, says Nathaniel Taylor of Keltie.

This year held some fascinating developments in IP litigation, from whether AI can be named as an inventor on a patent, to a decision on PTEs with far-reaching implications. Naomi Pearce, Kate Legge and Emily Dwyer of Pearce IP report.

Alice test sinks IBM patents related to graphical displays | Decision “illustrates why patent eligibility should not be determined at the pleadings stage” | New York Intellectual Property Law Association| Zillow Group.

A new referral to the European Patent Office’s enlarged board of appeal will determine whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive steps in patentability, as Sarah Gibbs of Appleyard Lees reports.

15 Years of Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation in Europe - C5’s Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation in Europe will take place 23–24 February, 2022 in Amsterdam, the...

Lord Justice Birss’ dissenting judgment offered a workaround to a deficiency in the UK patents system, argues David Brinck of EIP.

Cape Verde: is there a brighter picture for patent rights? 01-06-2021 06-01-2017 Trademarks have dominated Cape Verde’s IP field at the expense of other rights such as patents and industrial designs for many years. But this scenario could be about to change, says Diana Pereira of Inventa International. As is the case in many countries, trademarks have taken the biggest IP share in Cape Verde ever since the creation of the region’s IP rights legislation. This has been to the detriment of oth...