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The number of patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) rose by almost 3% last year to 199,275 new inventions. Digital communication, electrical machines and energy technology were the growth areas, the EPO said in Munich on Tuesday. Significantly more applications were received from South Korea and China in particular. However, the US is still clearly in the lead with around 48,200 applications. Germany followed at a considerable distance with an increase of 1.4% to almost 25,000 applications. Japan was next with around 21,500, followed by China with 20,700, South Korea 12,600, ...
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European lawmakers will seek stronger protection for trade secrets of pharmaceutical companies in talks with EU ministers on new compulsory licensing legislation after a plenary vote on their negotiating mandate held this week. New rules were proposed by the European Commission in April to give the bloc a single instrument for compulsory licensing. Negotiations to approve the final legislative text will start once EU ministers will finalise their own amendments to the commission’s proposal. Governments may grant compulsory licenses in exceptional circumstances allowing use of protected inventi...
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The spirit of invention is apparently booming in Germany with domestic patent applications up some 3.4% on the previous year, after slumping during the coronavirus pandemic. Last year, domestic companies, research institutions and individual inventors filed a total of 38,469 patent applications, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) announced in Munich on Tuesday. Additionally, there were 20,187 patents received from abroad, which was slightly more than in the previous year. "The fact that the innovation activity of German companies is picking up noticeably is an encouraging sign in e...
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The European Unitary Patent system incorporating a the Unified Patent Court have been fully operational since last June 2023, and the new system has exceeded expectations, according to European Patent Office President, António Campinos. Campinos took up office as the President of the Munich-headquartered European Patent Office (EPO) in 2018. Prior to his appointment, he served as Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, Spain from 2010 until June 2018. A Portuguese national, he has previously served as Head of the Portuguese Delegation at the W...
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The President of the European Patent Office has urged lawmakers voting on a final deal on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) today (28 February) to ‘press pause’, claiming that the regulation is not yet fit for purpose and the commission has rushed it through too quickly. As reported, lawmakers at the European Parliament plenary session are set to greenlight the patent rules today, but member states have not yet agreed on their position, and a final deal on SEPs can only come under the mandate of the new European Commission, potentially in the second half of 2024. “It is clear that whatever hap...
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New rules beefing the powers of the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) are scheduled to pass through the European Parliament plenary session tomorrow (28 February), but as member states have not yet agreed over the text, a final deal on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) can only come under the mandate of the new European Commission, potentially in the second half of 2024. A spokesperson for the Council of the EU, which organises the ministerial meetings, told Euronews that the member states are likely to progress on SEP legislation once another related dossier from the commission’s ...
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Washington (AFP) - Harvard business professor Rem Koning studies how bias hurts innovation. But three years ago, his research hit too close to home when his wife, suffering from a rare post childbirth condition, couldn't find treatments designed with new moms in mind. "It came out of nowhere. And the whole thing was a lot more scary than I think it needed to be," Koning told AFP about the diagnosis of postpartum preeclampsia, which is characterized by high blood pressure. The couple were also disappointed by the quality of tech products aimed at mothers -- and realized it might be because mos...
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