by David Eyre | Jun 10, 2025 | UPC
The jurisprudence of the United Patent Court (UPC) is relatively new. Thus, a question of ongoing interest is to what extent the UPC will follow the jurisprudence of the European Patent Office (EPO) and/or one of the UPC member states was not fully known. The...
by Carolyn Haywood | Jun 3, 2025 | Designs & Copyright
Background The present decision stems from an appeal by Safestand against an order of the High Court declaring three of its UK registered designs (90002293490001 (“RRD 0001”), 90003121450004 (“RRD 0004”) and 90003121450005 (“RRD 0005”) (collectively, “the...
by Sean Hughes | May 28, 2025 | UPC
Munich Local Division Endorses EPO’s Problem-Solution Approach In Edwards Lifesciences vs Meril (UPC_CFI_501/2023), the Munich Local Division (LD) has affirmed the use of the problem-solution approach (PSA) for assessing inventive step. The PSA, a method long...
by Sean Hutchinson | May 20, 2025 | EPO
It is generally accepted in the world of IP that all inventions fall into one of four categories: products, methods, apparatuses (i.e. products for carrying out specific processes), and uses. Thus, when drafting a new patent application, an important first step is to...
by Alyson Lam | May 13, 2025 | Trademarks
Background Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO), the owner of the trademark “GAME OF THRONES,” contested the registration of the mark “GAME OF DÖNER” before the Opposition Division (OD) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), arguing that it should be...
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