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Changes to the EPO Guidelines ...
The annual updated version of the Guidelines for Examination came into force on 1 March 2023. The updates are intended to reflect ...
EPO fee increase
The EPO has announced an increase in their official fees, which will be effective from 1 April 2023. The fees will increase by rou ...
Legal changes to the EPC to su...
The Administrative Council of the EPO passed a package of rules on 13th October 2022 to support the ongoing digital transformation ...
January bulletin
PCT USPTO (competent International Searching and Preliminary Examining Authorities) The USPTO, in its capacity as RO, has notif ...
Patenting AI inventions at the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are areas of technology that are rapidly innovating and contributing to an ...
Adaption of the description to...
Article 84 EPC requires that the claims are supported by the description. The updated 2021 Guidelines for Examination 2021 led t ...
New Rule 56a – Correcting do...
The EPO has always allowed an applicant to file missing parts of a description or drawings, but they have used a narrow interpreta ...
AI Inventorship – an update
Background Dr Stephen Thaler created an AI system called “DABUS” and subsequently filed patent applications at a number of pa ...