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1 November 2023: End of the “Ten Day Rule”

[02/11/2023] In October 2022, the Administrative Council of the EPO amended a number of the Implementing Regulations of the European Patent Convention (EPC) including the...

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Decision G1/22 & G2/22: The Enlarged Board of Appeal simplifies the requirements on transfer of priority right

[12/10/2023] The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office has just issued its decision in cases G1/22 and G2/22 about entitlement to priority. Whereas it was...

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“Poisonous unitary effect”, what’s new with the UPC

[28/09/2023] In our last article in the series "What’s new with the UPC", we showed that the existence of a prior national right (a national patent application from a European State,...

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The French Supreme Court clarifies infringement by equivalents

[26/09/2023] Photo by Robin Ooode on Unsplash. In a ruling handed down on 28 June, 2023, the French Supreme Court (Court of Cassation) clarified the principles of infringement by...

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Kubota case: the French Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) overturns the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal concerning second-generation divisional applications

[07/09/2023] Kubota Corporation had filed before the French Patent Office (INPI) a divisional application deriving from a patent application still under examination ("parent...

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National Prior Rights, what’s new with the UPC

[26/07/2023] On 1 June 2023, the entry into force of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Jurisdiction (UPCA) finally implemented the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent...

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US Supreme Court decision in Amgen v Sanofi case

[12/07/2023] Photo by Fine Photographics on Unsplash. On 18 May 2023, the US Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in the famous dispute between Amgen and Sanofi, highlighting...

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Double protection between French and European patents, what’s new with the UPC

[23/06/2023] On 1 June 2023, the entry into force of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Jurisdiction (UPCA) finally set up the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent...

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UPC Language of Proceedings: English now accepted by any local division

France has now decided to accept English as an official language of proceedings before its local division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC). This language can be chosen in addition to...

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D-Day for the entry into force of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court!

[01/06/2023] 10 years after it was signed, the UPC Agreement is finally coming into force in the 17 participating Member States of the European Union, establishing the Unified Patent...

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Signature of a PPH agreement between INPI and CNIPA

[25/05/2023] The French patent and trademark office (INPI) has signed a "PPH" agreement with the CNIPA, its Chinese counterpart. This agreement will enter into force on 1 June...

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UPC update: Decision on the provisional allocation of patent litigation

[17/05/2023] As indicated in a press release of May 16th, the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has decided that, as of June 1, 2023, patent litigations pending before the...

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