Patents

The case highlights the significant commercial consequences IP disputes can have on the parties involved.

The Enlarged Board is asked whether computer simulations can be classed as inventions.

A computer program has devised two potentially patentable ideas, but can it be listed as an inventor?

What rights does an employee have when developing an invention as part of their "normal duties" at work?

A recent EPO decision addresses the allowability of amendments to a claim in a patent document.

The new test of patent infringement is used in the IPEC for the first time.

Several claims were found invalid due to lack of inventive step.