Ah, the Holiday Season. The time where families get together to celebrate with joy beside the Christmas tree with a face, observed by the cameras hidden in the ornaments. Ehm… what? Oh yeah, we just imagined the Holiday season with a few of the best (worst) Christmas inventions ever. Because if you dive deep into the patent database with over 100 million documents, you ought to find some weird stuff…

Unfortunately, ideas cannot be patented. To have a patent, you will need to redefine your idea as a technical invention or an industrially applicable method.

When it comes to protecting ideas, there are many different ways to do that depending on your invention and the markets your company operates in. In this blog we will show you 7 different solutions.

On the poor day of April 21th, the legendary Prince died at the age of 57 – too early for many. Incredible artist, who made almost 40 albums in 35 years, he was a real control-freak with his music and his rights, for a long, long time.

Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79 which may potentially result in massive political skirmish for over the next year, and the outcome can have a significant impact on global legal trends.

Finally the new text of the trademark regulation has been officially published in order to harmonise the national trademark laws and practices with the EU trademark. Let us see what the biggest changes are which will presumably have the most effect on trademark practice.

On Friday, January 15, the United States Supreme Court granted Cuozzo Speed Technologies’s writ of certiorari challenging the PTAB’s decision to invalidate its patent.

Every year the European Patent Office (EPO) as a fundamental institution ofintellectual property rights in Europe organizes a conference where the recent highlighted decisions are revealed and current trends are analyzed in depths. In today’s IPintz article as a participant I seek to give a brief summary of this event.