The UPC Court of Appeal has now provided clear guidance on how the UPC should determine whether a patent involves an inventive step. This endorses the “holistic” approach, establishing what the ...

One of the threshold criteria for a patent is assessing ‘inventive step’. Recently, the UPC Court of Appeal provided important guidance on how this will be applied in UPC proceedings UPC_CoA 528/2024 ...

Masato Iida of Shiga International Patent Office explains how the inventive step obstacle can be cleared when preparing a patent application and presents several case studies based on combination ...

This is an Insight article, written by a selected contributor as part of WTR's co-published content. Read more on Insight It is paramount in a patent examination to determine whether an invention ...

“U.S. courts have made clear that mere plausibility is not the test for enablement, finding that patentees could otherwise obtain patent rights to purported inventions consisting of little more than ...

Article 22 of the Patent Act provides that, where an invention can be easily made by a person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) based on prior art, no invention patent shall be granted, ...

The most common rejections of such inventions issued by the Mexican Institute of the Industrial Property (MIIP) make reference to a lack of a technical problem disclosed in the specification of the ...

The EU has spoken: the directive for the patenting of computer-implemented inventions is dead. But that does not mean the end for software-related patents, as long as patent attorneys consider all ...

“U.S. patent practitioners preparing to file in the EPO should be aware of several key considerations and potential pitfalls.” In today’s global economy, securing international patent protection is ...