A right to claim priority exists for 12 months after filing a first patent application for an invention. If this “priority deadline” is missed, the right of priority is lost. Fortunately, the PCT has mechanisms which allow for its restoration, subject to meeting certain criteria.
Potter Clarkson has added two senior patent attorneys to their rapidly expanding life science team in Stockholm.
In the potentially ground-breaking decision on Emotional Perception delivered late last year, the High Court found that a claim relating to a trained artificial neural network (ANN) did not fall foul of the recognised non-patentable subject matter exclusion for being a "computer program as such".
Yesterday, in a highly anticipated ruling, the UPC Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal brought by Ocado in its litigation in the UPC against Autostore.
The 2024 SME Fund offered by the European Intellectual Property office (EUIPO) is now live. The scheme aims to help EU-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with protecting their intellectual property (IP) rights.
In a landmark ruling (and the first substantive judgment of the Court of Appeal (CoA) of the Unified Patent Court), the CoA has overturned a widely reported decision of the Munich Local Division in which a preliminary injunction was ordered against NanoString.