Newsletter June 2021
Atom Tong Xi Jun
Chinese patent law
China is one of the most dynamic and promising economies in the world. In order to meet the demands (...)
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Mathias Robert, Denis Bourgarel
Artificial Intelligence and Drug Development
Artificial intelligence (AI), like any other previous General Purpose Technology, is pervasive, (...)
Newsletter N°24 March 2021
Fabian Lieb
The French patent law reform – The patent office has got its hands full
A few years ago, France passed a new bill, called “Loi PACTE”, which includes ambitious changes to (...)
Newsletter N° 24 March 2020
Christian Schmit
New version of the EPO Guidelines and life on Mars
The new Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (EPO) entered into force on March (...)
Newsletter March 2021
Albert Hassine
Patent Prosecution Highway
This article is also available in japanese.  The French Patent office (INPI) and the Japanese (...)
Mathias Robert, Charlotte Leleu
méthodes de simulation
This article is also available in French. The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent (...)
Newsletter January 2021
Natacha Sasiuk
“Messi” Case: when the Applicant’s Reputation Reverses the Score
Far from the football pitch where he is used to winning, it was before the European Court of (...)
Newsletter January 2021
Hélène Leblois-Prehaud
EPO
While claiming priority in the US or other countries outside Europe may not be a sensitive issue, (...)
Newsletter January 2021
Trade mark cancelled for bad faith, no flower power for Banksy !
Who is really hiding behind the pseudonym Banksy?  Banksy, a provocative British artist and street- (...)
Newsletter January 2021
Mathias Robert
Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Maintenance and Patents
From the article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", written by Alan Turing in 1950, to the (...)
Newsletter September 2020
Jacqueline Vinatier , Cyra Nargolwalla
Procédures orales à l’OEB
In view of the present situation with Coronavirus (Covid-19), the European Patent Office is (...)
Newsletter September 2020
Petra Kotsch
German Trademark Law
The amendment of the German Trademark Law as the implementation of the EU Trade Marks Directive (...)