Germany: UPCA Not Applicable In National Infringement Proceedings

Bringing the UPCA into force does not (yet) render obsolete national patent infringement proceedings based on European patents without unitary effect. In its judgment dated February 14, 2024 (docket no. 6 U 232/22), the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe – apart from making some interesting comments on the question of the extent to which an opposition decision is equivalent to the description of the patent – clarifies that such legal disputes will continue to be fought on secure […]

By | May 29th, 2024 ||

Latest Developments On Administrative Revocation Of Trademarks!

While the relevant article regulating the transfer of authority to examine the requests for revocation of trademarks to the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“the Office”) was not yet entered into force and there were still a level of uncertainty concerning the procedure, the first development in this regard took place on October 23, 2023 when the Office published and opened the “Draft Regulation for Amendment of the Regulation on the Implementation of the […]

By | May 27th, 2024 ||

Electronics And Engineering Companies Lead 2023 PCT Filings

According to data released in March by the World Intellectual Property Office, WIPO, Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm retained their positions as the top three filers of international patent applications filed in 2023.

Against a backdrop of rising interest rates and economic uncertainty, however, total PCT filings in 2023 were 1.8% lower than in 2022, the first such year-on-year decline in 14 years.

In view of comments by WIPO Director General Daren Tang, a return to growth in […]

By | May 23rd, 2024 ||