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Visae Patentes | vor 6 Tagen —In our today's article "Anti-Patent Campaigners put their trust in François Hollande as EU Council attends to Unitary Patent Court again" on the ksnh::law blog we attend to the reopening of negotiations on the Unitary Patent Court on next week's Competitive Council meeting on May 31/June 1 (see dra…
Visae Patentes | 30. April 2012 — The German Pirate Party (“Piratenpartei”) is well known amongst IP professionals for their sceptic stance on the current state of copyright and patent law. On the ksnh::law blog we recently issued two postings titled "Pirate Party Winning Seats In Parliament Of Saarland, Germany" and "Political Tur…
Visae Patentes | 26. März 2012 —In this article of 22 March 2012 Partners of London based law firm Bristows report on a new compromise approach by the Danish EU Presidency to resolve the current deadlock in the question as to where the important Central Division of the future EU Unified Patent Court should be located (see earlier…
Visae Patentes | 20. März 2012 —As recently reported on the ksnh::law blog in an article titled "German Federal Government Strongly Advocates Munich as Seat of Central Divison of EU Unified Patent Court", a written parliamentary question in the German Parliament/Bundestag by MP Doris Barnett (Social Democrats) gave the Federal Gov…
Visae Patentes | 19. März 2012 — ... . EPLAW and Jochen Pagenberg, European Patent Judges and Sir Robin Jacob, Professor Krasser, CIPA), industry representatives (e.g. ICC, IP Federation), and a few politicians (e.g. JURI member Cecilia Wikström (SE, ALDE) [1, 2, 3] and UK IP Minister Baroness Wilcox), all of which demanding Artic…
Visae Patentes | 15. Februar 2012 — ... debates on Unitary Patent Protection, a Fisheries debate was held on 14 February 2012. That might by a meed much. For a more complete picture on what is going on in this particular field of EU politics, you may refer to the two above-referenced articles [1, 2] which, inter alia, relate to the …
Visae Patentes | 14. Februar 2012 — ... months: OHIM to be transformed into IP enforcemebt agency Chasing the Intermediaries Obsession ... EU regulation for customs enforcement of IP rights ACTA. (cf. ksnh::law ... by implemented secondary EU law regarding IP enforcement: Council Regulation (EC) No ... be …
Visae Patentes | 16. Januar 2012 —The first two articles on our ksnh::law blog in 2012 have drawn a promising but fragile picture on the condition of the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court in the beginning of 2012. It certainly is a sign of progress (although some would say in the wrong direction) that the Secretariat of the E…
Visae Patentes | 28. Dezember 2011 — Michel Barnier getting increasingly impatient with EU Patent system In an article dated December 26, 2011 (see tweet), french daily Le Figaro reports on the increasing impatience of Michel Barnier, EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, with the (lack of) progress in the st…
Visae Patentes | 23. Dezember 2011 — In a posting on ksnh::law titled "EU Patent Package: JURI has Spoken, But What did it Say?" we report on what - presumably - has happened in the JURI meeting on December 20, in which the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee voted on the three separate resolutions/agreements of the so called 'EU …
Visae Patentes | 16. Dezember 2011 — ... e.g. here and here). In two recent articles titled Critical Position Paper of International IP Federation FICPI on Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court, and European Patent Lawyers Consider Proposed ... should be aimed to make the CJEU a competent final authority also in patent …
Visae Patentes | 14. Dezember 2011 — ... EU Unitary Patent Project: Relation To Brussels I", and Critical Position Paper of International IP Federation FICPI on Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court, inter alia reporting on FICPI ... patent professionals [1][2][3], politically supported by JURI member Wikström and U…
Visae Patentes | 29. November 2011 — While stakeholders frequently discuss the political and financial issues in connection with the Unitary Patent and the related Unified Patent Court, the procedural and patent law related features of the new framework are not so often exhibited. In a recent article titled "The Essential Fe…
Visae Patentes | 7. Oktober 2011 —In a new article titled "Will the Unitary Patent Really Lower Costs for Applicants by up to 70% ?", the IP law blog ksnh::law reports on the fact that this full-bodied announcement of the President of the EPO, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Mi…
Visae Patentes | 28. September 2011 —In a recent article titled "New Developments Concerning the EU Unified Patent Court", the IP law blog ksnh::law refers to the revised Presidency text of the "Draft agreement on a Unified Patent Court and draft Statute" (Document 13751/11), which was submitted by the Polish EU Presidency to the…
