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No more patents for cells derived from human embryos in EU
The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) has issued a key decision limiting the scope of protection available for inventions that claim human ES cells and their derivatives. These restrictions apply to the whole EU and go further than previous measures adopted by the European Patent Office in this area. More...
EU patent system update: two steps forward one step back
Following decades of vetoed proposals for a unitary EU-wide patent system, the European Parliament in February 2011 approved a request by twelve EU countries to apply the new veto-busting ‘enhanced cooperation procedure’ to the latest EU patent proposal. More..
Informal Invitation to Clarify or Final Chance?
In a notice dated 1 March 2011, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that it is now applying an informal clarification procedure when acting as International Searching Authority (ISA) under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). More..