Clarification by the European General Court on the grace period i...
The grace period allows a design to be modified during the 12-month grace period, as long as the registered design [&hel...
On May 1, 2025: Phase I of the “EU Design Package” reform...
According to the declarations by the EUIPO, this reform aims to: Modernize the design protection system in line with cur...
New insights on added subject-matter and interpretation of functi...
A recent order of the UPC Court of Appeal provides an updated view on the approach that the UPC could […]
Major Changes Coming to EU Design Law: Key Updates Overview
The European Union is implementing significant reforms to its design protection system, marking the most substantial upd...
The UPC has issued the first decision on infringement by equivale...
The Court of First Instance of the Hague Local Division has adopted a four-step test and found infringement by equivalen...
AI ACT – first step!
The first AI Act (EU Reg. 2024/1689) obligations, which include AI literacy and the ban on prohibited AI practices, will...
The Unified Patent Court and the FRAND Dance
A New Era for SEP Litigation in Europe? The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has made a notable debut, with a […]
An important first instance decision by the Paris Central Divisio...
Following the UPC_CoA_335/2023 order (see our previous article [link]), the Paris Central Division has ruled on an inval...
Milan is about to become central in the UPC
The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (also known as UPC Agreement or UPCA) was signed in 2013, when the […]
Stay of the proceedings before the UPC in view of parallel EPO pr...
According to Art. 33 (10) UPCA and the relative implementing Rule 295(a), the UPC has discretion to stay proceedings pen...
Changing the language of UPC proceedings on request of a party: r...
The wide variety of languages that may be used in proceedings before the UPC, and specifically the tug-of-war between En...
Public access to written pleadings and evidence
Following the hearing of 12 March 2024 in Luxembourg (see here), the UPC Court of Appeal set the reasons to […]
10 Months of UPC
After several years in the making, the UPC was launched on 1 June 2023. Ten months later, more than 300 […]
A New European Design Law is coming
On 1 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the update of the EU law on design protection agreed with the [&hellip...
Language of UPC proceedings: will english prevail over german?
The UPC offers a uniform framework for patent litigation at a European level, but not (yet?) a uniform language of [&hel...
It’s a landmark moment for Artificial Intelligence in Europ...
Following a resounding majority of 523 votes in the European Parliament, the exhaustive legislative process aimed at reg...
New fee reduction scheme by the EPO
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced the usual review of official fees that will enter into force on April [&h...
Important change effective from 1st November 2023: the EPO will d...
According to the present EPO regulations, any communication issued by the EPO is assumed to be notified 10 days after [&...
Counterfeiting and plagiarism: the tools to adequately protect th...
Counterfeiting and plagiarism put a strain on the effectiveness of the protection measures offered by our legal system....
Blockchain and artificial intelligence: their impact on protectin...
Blockchain and artificial intelligence are major topics of interest for intellectual property. What impact can they have...
Artificial intelligence technologies: patenting in companies fiel...
The use of artificial intelligence technologies can be a competitive advantage for companies. In which of these are such...
Artificial intelligence and most widely used applications
Extensive technological advances have been made in the field of artificial intelligence. In which fields are AI systems ...
Artificial intelligence systems and intellectual property rights:...
Simone Bongiovanni, partner Studio Torta and coordinator of the working group of the Order of Al Consultants, analyzes t...
UP&UPC: off we go!
At last, the new patent system based on the European Patent with Unitary Effect (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (U...
Artificial intelligence and patentability of inventions
The steadily increasing use of artificial intelligence technologies raises an important question concerning the status o...
UPC System on the starting blocks
On 17 February 2023, Germany ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement. This officially triggers the start of the UPC ...
Updates on UP & UPC, the launch planned for April 1
According to the latest available information, the European patent with unitary effect (hereinafter referred to as ‘th...
The OPT-OUT in light of the latest amendments to the rules of pro...
The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC) is expected to enter into force in the spring of 2023 and […]
Entry into the Italian national phase from international PCT pate...
Entry into the Italian national phase at the ITPTO of an international PCT patent application takes place with the filin...
