The European Parliament (EP) has enlisted the help of intellectual property lawyers to amend the directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions so that companies are prevented from ...

Discover how a Provisional Patent Application protects your invention with the "patent pending" label and learn about its ...

With the European Commission heading towards a second reading of its patent legislation, there's still more heat than light in discussions on the subject. The UK Patent Office (UKPO) has of late been ...

“The reality is that the term patent troll seems to be more in the eye of the beholder than anything else.” Over the last several weeks “patent trolls” have been back in the news. The mother of all ...

The U.S. patent system is once again coming under scrutiny for its vague definition of what can be patented. On Feb. 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit revisited CLS Bank ...

David Cavanaugh of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Photo Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM The twisting, turning saga of Illumina and Ariosa Diagnostics has taken another detour. On Monday the ...

In a dramatic change to Australian patent law, Australia's Full Federal Court has just held that patents for pharmaceutical formulations are not eligible for patent term extensions ( PTE ): Otsuka ...

“The patent for a novel lightbulb that is found to work particularly well in bank vaults does not become a CBM patent because of its incidental or complementary use in banks.” Earlier today the United ...

Each time someone claims a bit of India as their own - and in these times of Patent wars, we're fighting claims to about 40 products all over the world - the country goes into a tailspin. Anger, ...

Tomotoshi Shimano of Shiga International Patent Office examines the implications of recent High Court decisions relating to the interpretation of ‘working of a patented invention’ IP High Court (IPHC) ...