On 10 March 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued a decision for G 1/19 (Pedestrian simulation). The decision deals with the patentability of computer-implemented inventions...

In a meeting at the end of June 2019, the Administrative Council of the EPO unanimously approved the revised Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA), which was adopted by the Boards of Appeal...

In the German official Gazette of December 14, 2018 the Act on the Modernization of the German Trademark Act (“Markenrechtsmodernisierungsgesetz”) for an amendment of the German Trademark Act has...