Patent Attorney Axel H. Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property
29. Mai 2011 — Under the date of May 26, 2011, the EU Council has published Document 10629/11 titled Proposal for a Regulation of the Council and the European Parliament implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection including a Proposal for a Council Regulation i…
24. Mai 2011 — Galaxy of IP rights ... as seen by EU Commission Today the EU Commission has published a provisional version of Document COM(2011) 287 titled Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regi…
24. Mai 2011 — OHIM, Alicante (soon to be augmented into an enforcement agency) Today, the EU Commission has published a Proposal for a Regulation of the European parliament and the Council on entrusting the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) with certain tasks rel…
24. Mai 2011 — Today, the EU Commission has adopted a strategy intended to to revamp the legal framework in which Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) operate. The IPR Strategy sets out a series of short- and long-term key policy actions in various areas which include: Patents: the Commission already laun…
19. Mai 2011 — Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Mr Michel Barnier is EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. The Commission department under his political responsibility is the Internal Market and Services Directorate General (DG MARKT). The Office for Harmonisa…
18. Mai 2011 — On November 10, 2010, Official announcement was made to the effect that Professor Ian Hargreaves shall lead an independent review into how the intellectual property system in the United Kingdom can better drive growth and innovation. UK Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Wilcox had revea…
14. April 2011 — Recently, the European Commission has published Document COM(2011) 215/3 titled Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL implementing enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection. Council Decision 2011/167/EU (March 22, 2011 - Offi…
10. März 2011 — The dice is cast: Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the EU issued a damning verdict to pending plans for creating a new trans-EU Patent Court on the basis of an international agreement. Today, the EU Council has nodded through a license for 25 of 27 EU Member States (i.e all Member States exce…
9. März 2011 — In an earlier posting I had reported on the Opinion 01/09 - Statement by the Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the European Patent and the Community Patent Court as planned by the EU Council; see my earlier postings here, there and there. The date on th…
1. Februar 2011 — Today, the European Patent Office (EPO) has made available a second edition of An overview of the national patent litigation systems in Europe available for download on-line. The text provides an overview of the national patent litigation systems across the European Patent Organisation's 38 C…
25. Januar 2011 — The General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has published Document 5635/11 conveying a Summary of the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament, held in Strasbourg on January 20, 2011. The meeting was chaired by Mr Lehne (EPP, DE). The beginn…
15. Dezember 2010 — Today I was able to gain access to EU Commission Document COM(210) 790 final - kudos to @EUpexian on Twitter. The paper is titled Proposal for a Council Decision authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of the creation of unitary patent protection. It cumulates in a proposal for a Counc…
10. Dezember 2010 — I just spotted the above-pictured Tweet of Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for enterprise and streamlining policy of Belgium. The linked Document says: "After more than 40 years breakthrough in realizing EU Patent supporters put their own unified EU patent patent system Brusse…
18. November 2010 — Interpreter in the EU Parliament (Strasbourg) Earlier this month I reported on an epic failure of the EU Council to reach a political agreement on the question of languages and translations for the planned EU Patent. The proceedings in the extraordinary session held on November 10, 2010, …
12. November 2010 — Mr Ian Hargreaves On November 11, 2010, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) has announced that Professor Ian Hargreaves will lead an independent review into how the intellectual property system can better drive growth and innovation. A press release indicated that Intellectual Property…
11. November 2010 — Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister for enterprise and streamlining policy of Belgium As already reported yesterday on this Blog, today there has been an extraordinary session of the EU Council - Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space) - solely devoted to the EU …
9. November 2010 — The Peer-to-Patent project (also known as the Community Patent Review project) is an initiative that seeks reform of the patent system by gathering public input in a structured, productive manner. Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve the quality of issued patents by connecting the USPTO to an open…
9. November 2010 — As reported earlier, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral agreement for the purpose of establishing international standards on intellectual property rights enforcement. After a series of draft text leaks in 2008, 2009 and 2010 the negotiating parties had p…
9. November 2010 — As it was reported by my colleague Volker 'Falk' Metzler on his Visae Patentes Blog earlier this day, there are indications that the well-informed EurActiv network has seen a new compromise text proposed by the Belgian Presidency, which is hoped to have the potential to break the deadlock and…
11. Oktober 2010 — Further to my yesterday's posting I would like to point to an article published today on EurActiv saying that the Belgian EU Presidency will try to narrow the distance between national delegations on the long-standing issue of languages and translations during a meeting of EU ministers sta…
10. Oktober 2010 — On October 06, the Belgian EU Presidency has sent a paper to the EU Council which is titled Proposal for a Council Regulation on the translation arrangements for the European Union patent - Political orientation and which now has been made public as Document 14377/10. Primarily, the Document …
10. Oktober 2010 — Non-autonomous car driving, XX. century This weekend reports emerged (here, here, and there) that Google, Inc., successfully has tested autonomous driverless vehicles driving around in normal street traffic in secrecy for a year or so, collecting some 140K miles of driving experience.…
6. September 2010 — In an earlier posting I had reported that, on the first day of the Belgian EU Presidency, the EU Commission had published a Proposal for a Council Regulation (EU) on the translation arrangements for the European Union patent. This Document suggests to require human quality translations of EU …
23. August 2010 — Only now I have stumbled upon Opinion 01/09 - Statement by the Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning the European Patent and the Community Patent Court as planned by the EU Council; see my earlier postings here, there and there. The date on that …
15. Juli 2010 — The ninth round of negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was held in Lucerne, Switzerland, from June 28 to July 01, 2010. After the eighth round of negotiations on ACTA held in Wellington, New Zealand, from April 12 to April 16, 2010, a redacted version of th…
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