Patent Issues

In This Issue Autumn 2009

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News

• Sunset on filing Divisional European Patent Applications
  
• UK Rocket Docket
• Dominant Licensor must Grant License for Patent Essential to Standard
• No Doctrine of Equivalents

UK

• Purposive Construction withstands a Heavy Load
• Tough for a Troll to Argue Commercial Success
• Licensee Fails to Wriggle out of Badly Drafted Licence
• Method of Treatment Inventive but not Patentable - Apparatus Patentable but not Inventive
• UK IPO updates Practice Note on Patents for hESCs

Germany

• Dominant Licensor must Grant License in Germany
  (but still holds the Ace of Trumps)
  

EPO

• Other EPO Rule Changes on 1 April 2010
• Surgery and Diagnosis and the Grey Area Therebetween
• Double Patenting at the EPO
• Added Matter and Article 123(2) EPC - What is the Test for Claim Broadening?

International

• Registration of Granted UK or EP(UK) Patents in Various
  Jurisdictions Worldwide
  

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