Katherine Green - July 9, 2025 Most opposed companies at the EPO in 2024 Opposition activity at the European Patent Office is often a strong indicator of a technology’s ...
Katherine Green - June 30, 2025 Most opposed patents of 2024 The list is, again, dominated by patents for therapeutic treatments, although the trends seen last ...
Anthony Judd - December 18, 2024 New EPO sanctions against Russia As reported here, in late June 2024 the European Union (EU) extended their package of sanctions in ...
Rebecca Tollervey - October 28, 2024 Claim Requests found Inadmissible in EPO Appeal Proceedings: What Can Proprietors Do? Since the EPO’s Rule of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) were revised in 2020, parties have ...
Tom Furnival - October 8, 2024 Most opposed medical device companies at the EPO 2023 Following on from our recent post on the Most Opposed Companies at the EPO 2023 we’ve broken that ...
Katherine Green - September 17, 2024 Most opposed companies at the EPO 2023 The European Patent Office grants about 100,000 patents per year (EPO Statistics here). The grant ...
Emily Hayes - September 6, 2024 Preparing your patent for success in EPO opposition proceedings Emily Hayes shares five simple prosecution tips to strengthen EP patents, ensuring they are in the ...
Alex Galbraith - September 4, 2024 We perform significantly better than the EPO average at oppositions We really are experts when it comes to opposing patents and our enviable success rate speaks for ...
Jeremy Webster - July 26, 2024 Meet the team: Jeremy Webster, Partner, Head of Chemistry As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to partner and head of chemistry, Jeremy Webster, ...
Katherine Green - February 2, 2024 Most opposed patents of 2023 Multiple sclerosis therapies are the subject of two of the most opposed patents of 2023. Novartis’ ...
Emily Hayes - December 20, 2023 Amended Rules of Procedure of the EPO Boards of Appeal are coming into force on 1 January 2024 The EPO Boards of Appeal have now published their amended Rules of Procedure and these will be ...
Lucy Coe - December 4, 2023 EPO will accelerate oppositions when there are parallel UPC infringement or revocation proceedings The EPO have announced in the November 2023 Official Journal that they will accelerate opposition ...
Sean Constable - November 30, 2023 Practical tips for EPO appeal proceedings under the new, stricter rules: 5 key takeaways from a recent EPO conference In 2020 the EPO revised the rules that govern the procedure at the EPO Boards of Appeal. As we ...
Katherine Green - November 13, 2023 Most opposed patents of 2022 As with CRISPR, patents directed to Nobel Prize-winning technologies are viewed as extremely ...
Callum McGuinn - February 8, 2023 Meet the team: Callum McGuinn, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Chemistry team, London As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Callum McGuinn about his journey to becoming a ...
Julie Carlisle - February 5, 2023 Meet the team: Julie Carlisle, Partner, Patent Attorney and Litigator in the Chemistry team, London As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Julie Carlisle about her journey to becoming a ...
Emma Graham - February 1, 2023 Should I file third party observations? A study of the consequences of filing third party observations (TPOs) in the MedTech sector and the ...
Eleanor Maciver - January 24, 2023 Meet the team: Eleanor Maciver, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Chemistry team, Cambridge As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Eleanor Maciver about her journey to becoming a ...
Jonathan Wills - November 23, 2022 Opposition and examination oral proceedings by videoconference (ViCo) now as standard In response to the significant travel restrictions that were in place across Europe during the ...
Simon Kiddle - November 16, 2022 Positive feedback on oral proceedings in oppositions carried out by videoconference In September, the EPO commissioned a survey about their opposition procedure, in particular asking ...
Paul Dunne - November 1, 2022 Meet the team: Paul Dunne, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Chemistry team, Bristol As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Paul Dunne about his journey to becoming a patent ...
Emily Hayes - August 5, 2022 We perform significantly better than the EPO average at oppositions We really are experts when it comes to opposing patents and our enviable success rate speaks for ...
Katherine Green - July 28, 2022 Most opposed patents of 2021 When we reviewed our list of the most opposed European patents of 2021, we found that the patent at ...
Emily Hayes - April 7, 2022 EPO extends pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 December 2022 On 6 April 2022, the EPO issued a notice extending its pilot project for conducting oral ...
Florian Zobel - March 30, 2022 2022 changes to EPO Guidelines: highlights With the 2021 changes to the examination guidelines, the EPO changed its schedule for issuing ...
Katherine Green - January 26, 2022 A guide to EPO opposition proceedings by videoconference EPO oppositions by videoconference only became possible relatively recently, in April 2020. In 2021 ...
Emily Hayes - November 24, 2021 EPO extends pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 May 2022 On 23 November 2021, the EPO issued a notice extending its pilot project for conducting oral ...
Emily Hayes - October 29, 2021 Videoconference oral proceedings: Enlarged Board of Appeal issues reasons for its decision in G 1/21 The Enlarged Board has now issued its full written decision in G 1/21 relating to videoconference ...
Stephen Gill - May 6, 2021 We helped determine the meaning of “technical feature” Case - T 0258/03 Our extensive arguments in relation to whether a feature is ‘technical’ have ...
Matthew Naylor - May 5, 2021 Case review: what can be considered as prior art when assessing inventive step? Case - T 0211/06 In the decision T 0211/06 from the EPO Board of Appeal (BoA), Engineering partner ...
Stephen Gill - May 3, 2021 Engineering oppositions: what is considered to be an implicit disclosure in a patent application? Case - T2541/11 This decision provides guidance and clarification in three key areas of EP law:
Christopher Casley - November 13, 2020 Videoconference Oral Proceedings for EPO Oppositions – an Update The EPO has announced changes to the Pilot Project for Video Conference (ViCo) Oral Proceedings ...
