In what has been an extraordinary and difficult year, our experts have been tracking the big developments throughout the past 12 months and have distilled them into the key takeaways you need from the most significant judgments.
According to the European Patent Office (EPO) annual report 2020, 1,912 opposition cases were decided in 2020: 31% of patents were upheld as granted, 35% of patents were revoked and 34% of patents were maintained in an amended form. However, in 2020 37% of these decisions were appealed.
Your European patent rights are a valuable commercial asset but you risk losing them in an opposition unless a successful defence can be mounted.
2021 will see long-awaited changes to EU battery legislation, bringing opportunities and challenges alike for innovators across the energy storage space.
On 16 December 2020, the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s 2019 trade mark infringement ruling against the luxury car brand, Bentley Motors.