To manage the overwhelming amount of patent data it must process, the European Patent Office (EPO) in Vienna, Austria, has partnered with California-based Google in a no-cost collaboration. The ...

Thirty-nine contracting nations of the European Patent Convention—a separate treaty more inclusive than EU membership—have organized a unified European Patent Office (the EPO). Instead of applying ...

RecycLiCo Battery Materials Inc., a lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycler based in Surrey, British Columbia, has been issued an official communication from the European Patent Office (EPO) indicating its ...

BRUSSELS, March 28 (Reuters) - The European Union patent body will oversee a new process to set fair royalties on patents for technologies widely used in products like cellphones, according to a draft ...

In June 2023, the European Union (EU) will introduce the European Unitary Patent. At the outset, the European Unitary Patent will be enforceable in the 17 States that have ratified the agreement ...

After 45 years, the European Patent Office is replacing the existing regional patent system that has local enforcement with a new Unitary Patent (UP) system that has enforcement throughout Europe by a ...

As European politicians consider fundamental reforms to patent protection, one of the key questions they have to address is how to make the system more efficient. In particular, some critics believe ...

The course on patentability enhances chances of securing valid patents by teaching effective search strategies, focusing on identifying novelty and applicability in compliance with US and European ...