Chapter 2 Main Amendments of Germany Patent Act (2021) Xinmiao Yu and Yuhan Tang The Second Act to Simplify and Modernise Patent Law were promulgated in the Federal Law Gazette (BGBl. I p.3490) on 17 August 2021. The Act on Further Duties of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and...
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Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1982 to 200848, China has a large number of judges at all levels of courts hearing IP cases. In 2021, for example, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) had 42 IP judges. The court uses a computer program to randomly assign at least ...
In contrast to the other three jurisdictions, the German Patent and Trademark Office also grants utility models (Gebrauchsmuster). The legal remedies available to owners of utility models are the same as those available to patentees. Utility models differ from patents above all in that they are ...
Patent Dispute. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, a Dispute between the Parties relating to the validity, enforceability or patentability of any Patent Right, Trademark or oth...
Besides some formalities and adaptions to international treaties, the main two issues of the draft legislation are a clarification of the right to injunctive relief of a patentee against a patent infringer and measures to accelerate patent nullity lawsuits before the German Federal Patent Court. ...
Which term best describes a legal right to exclusively use and profit from an invention or improved process for a certain number of years? a. Public domain b. Patent c. Trademark d. Fair use When filing with the SEC, the initia...
Methods Patent data sources In this paper, we combine a number of distinct databases covering different patent offices: the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), and patents filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The USPTO and EPO generally provide...
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SUMMARY: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) has prepared interim guidance (2014 Interim Guidance on Patent Subject Matter Eligibility, called ‘‘Interim Eligibility Guidance’’) for use by USPTO personnel in determining subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. 101 ...