The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that Romania will join to the Unitary Patent system on 1 September 2024. This will bring the total number of EU Member States participating in the Unitary Patent system to 18.
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The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced an impending adjustment to its fee schedule, set to take effect on April 1st, 2024. This decision to increase fees may impact applicants and patent holders engaging with the EPO. For some of the fees the increase is up to 30%.
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The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that Georgia to be included in a European patent (EP) application as a Validation State.
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If you miss a patent annuity deadline, it can have significant consequences for your intellectual property rights. Patent annuities are periodic maintenance fees that must be paid to keep a patent in force. Failure to pay these fees on time can result in the abandonment of your patent, which means that your exclusive rights to the invention will be lost. However, in many countries, there are still some alternative ways to keep your patent in force.
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IP lawyers or attorneys, also known as patent and trademark or intellectual property lawyers or attorneys, play a vital role in protecting and safeguarding intellectual property rights. These legal professionals possess specialized knowledge and expertise in the complex field of intellectual property law.
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The purpose of patented solutions and pending patents is to enter the realm of the economy – i.e. to be applied in the market in practice. We have collected the degrees of patent rights transfers.
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The Unitary Patent Court is planned to open on the 1st of April, 2023. The court will have jurisdiction over disputes concerning European patents with a unitary effect as well as validated European patents. With that possibility of opting-out, the owners of validated European patents can remain under the jurisdictions of the same national courts instead of the newly operational unitary one.
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In order to be eligible for patenting, the invention must be new and no other person may have a prior patent application for it. Patents in most countries are granted for inventions that are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application.
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