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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/sufficiency-of-broad-functional-genus.html The Board of Appeal in T 0424/21 considered the sufficiency of a broad genus of antibodies and their use to treat any disease. The breadth of the patent claims upheld on appeal may well be astonishing to US readers used to the onerous US sufficiency requirements. In contrast to the US, the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/tuesday-wonders.html November is just around the corner and the next events and opportunities for IP enthusiasts are already here! “meanwhile the genius was sleeping” by extraterila is licensed under CC BY 2.0. EVENTS 27 October 2022 | 4iP Council: webinar “IP Waiver in pandemic times” (online) This webinar provides an overview of the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/book-review-competition-policy-and.html This is a book review of Competition Policy and the Music Industries, A Business Model Perspective by Jenny Kanellopoulou, Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University whose research focuses on intellectual property and competition policy. The book, Kanellopoulou explains in the introduction, was inspired by the 2010... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/alicante-granada-and-la-coruna-to.html In early October, the Spanish government published the criteria for selection of the seat for the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA). Spain will thus become the first country in the European Union (EU) to set up a supervisory agency for artificial intelligence (AI). As its... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/its-official-epo-confirms-10-day-rule.html Just over a week ago, IP social media was set alight with reports that the EPO Administrative Council (AC) was planning to abolish the 10-day notification rule (IPKat). The EPO itself maintained silence for a week until finally confirming in a press release last week that the 10 day rule... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-new-study-on-options-for-unified.html For all of those working with Supplementary Protection Certificates, the need for a review of the system is self-explanatory. The complexity of the legislation and case law, the absence of uniform expertise in the national agencies, and the diverging approaches in examining SPCs that result in diverging decisions and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/abrasive-outcome-on-over-broad-ranges.html Any litigator knows that sometimes life is not fair. With all the best practice, best arguments and right on your side, you still fall down. The Patent Gods aren not always benevolent forces, however. This seemed to be the story of 3M in its litigation with Saint-Gobain who defeated... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/epo-board-of-appeal-dismisses-step-by.html A recent case from the Boards of Appeal (T 1349/19) rejected a lack of inventive step argument that the skilled person would follow an obvious series of steps at arrive at the invention. The Board of Appeal further dismissed a further lack of inventive step argument based on the juxtaposition and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/book-review-disrupting-africa.html In his TEDxEuston talk, Telling the African story, Komla Dumor argues that “there must be a balance…or else don’t patronise me”. In the light of all the funding news and successes of tech startups across the African continent, this recommendation offers the right introduction to this Kat’s belated but... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-upc-announces-its-judicial.html The leafy premises of the Bundespatentgericht, to be shared by the Central division of the UPC in Munich Earlier this week, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) took a step closer towards fruition with the announcement of its judicial appointments and composition of its Praesidium. A total of 85 judges, comprising... Continue reading
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