Receiving Section News Today

Re-establishment of rights under Article 122 EPC may be used to recover rights if a deadline is missed that directly results in loss of rights relating to a European patent application or granted patent.

This follows the publication last week of an EPO report on the success of the pilot scheme The EPO has announced that as of 1st January 2023…

At present, all oral proceedings held before examining divisions, the Legal Division and the Receiving Section are held by ViCo by default following…

The “increasing positivity rate of Covid-19 cases in the National Capital Region” (NCR) has prompted the Supreme Court (SC) to re-enforce a reduced on-site work in its offices in Manila until July 31. In a memorandum order, Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo that in certain offices only 50 or 80

Supreme Court The Supreme Court (SC) revised anew its work operations starting Monday, Jan. 10, due the “recent massive infection of personnel” believed to be caused by the “highly transmissible” Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In a memorandum issued on Friday, Jan. 7, Ch

Supreme Court Suspension of work in the Supreme Court (SC) has been extended until Saturday, Jan. 8, due to “a high positivity rate” of personnel tested for infections with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo said the extended suspension of work will enable t

THE Supreme Court (SC) announced on Wednesday it would be extending its work suspension until Saturday, January 8, due to “high positivity rate” of its personnel tested for Covid-19 infections. In a Memorandum Order No. 3-2022, Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo said the extension was necessary to give way for massive…

The Supreme Court suspended work for three days, starting January 3 to January 5 after “many” personnel tested positive on antigen tests in the past week.

THE Supreme Court on Sunday ordered a three-day work suspension starting today (January 3) after noting a spike in the number of its personnel being tested positive for  Covid-19 during antigen tests. In Memorandum Order  2-2022, Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo noted that the report of more SC employees being tested…

Supreme Court (SC) The Supreme Court (SC) decided on Sunday, Jan. 2, to suspend work for three days starting Jan. 3 due to a surge in COVID-19 infections among its personnel. The SC premises will be disinfected and other court employees will be subjected to COVID tests during the three-day peri