Posted by ipeg on May 28th, 2012
The time period from filing a patent application to receiving a patent can last many years. In technologies such as software, biotechnology and communications, patent offices’ backlogs often result in a three year (or longer) delay for an application is even reviewed. Many single, mostly small, inventors who file a patent application would like to license their invention before the patent grants. In many cases this turns out to be impossible. Where they seek professional advice they are more often than not counseled to give up...
Posted by ipeg on January 8th, 2012
Every once in a while it makes sense to reconsider one’s international or foreign patent filing strategies, basically asking in which jurisdictions should I try to obtain patent protection, and on what basis should I make such decisions. To do this we pulled together comments from IPR colleagues in corporate IP departments, in academia, in intellectual property private practice, in some IP service providers as well as our own experiences and learnings in this space.
As far as international or foreign filing strategies are concerned,...
Posted by ipeg on December 9th, 2011
On 19 December 2011, Cees Mulder will defend at Maastricht University a PhD thesis entitled: “On the Alignment of the European Patent Convention and the Patent Cooperation Treaty with Requirements of the Patent Law Treaty”. The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) was drafted with the aim to “streamline and harmonize” formal requirements set by national or regional Patent Offices for the filing of national or regional patent applications and the maintenance of patents. The PLT provisions refer as much as possible to the provisions of the...
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