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As the Bundestag passes the legislation to ratify the UPC Agreement, the UPC may finally open its doors in 2022

08 December, 2020
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) took another step closer to coming into being on November 26 with a Bundestag vote passing the legislation necessary for Germany to ratify the UPC Agreement and the Protocol on Provisional Application with (more than) the two thirds majority found to be required by the German Federal Constitutional Court in … Read more

Geographical Indications – strengthening protection in the UK, the EU and China

07 December, 2020
Geographical indications have been receiving increasing levels of attention recently: The UK has announced a new system for GIs which will come into effect at the end of the Brexit transition period (see our post here); the EU has recently concluded an agreement on the mutual recognition of GIs with China (see more on this … Read more

Approach to assessing entitlement to priority unchanged – TBA in the CRISPR case confirms

16 November, 2020
On 6 November 2020, the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) issued a written decision in case T 844/18, which concerned whether or not the Broad Institute’s patent (EP 2 771 468) relating to CRISPR gene editing technology could validly claim priority from several US provisional applications. In summary, the TBA confirmed that the applicable rules … Read more
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