Letter of the Central Staff Committee to the President of the EPO
EPO’s Central Staff Committee reports on arbitrary reallocation of patent applications from IPQC companies. Here is the statement of companies involved: IPQC cannot comment on EPO internal proceedings. IPQC member companies explicitly reject and do not tolerate any form of special treatment of its European patent applications by the EPO. Rather, IPQC repeats its request […]
Conference on Patent Quality
On June 14, 2024 a took place. Declining patent quality is in the meantime not only a concern of industry but also patent attorneys, academia, judges and even the staff of the EPO share these concerns. Different speakers from academia, industry, patent office, and court therefore discussed the importance of valid and enforceable patents. There […]