António Campinos started his five-year term as President of the European Patent Office (EPO) on 1st July 2018. Having previously been executive director at the EUIPO, and president of Portugal’s National Industrial Property Institute, Mr. Campinos brings over 20 years experience to the post.
Dr Liam Lawlor discusses priority rights in the context of the European Patent Convention and recent decisions from a CRISPR/Cas9 perspective.
On 30 May, the EPO held a conference on “Patenting Artificial Intelligence”. It was attended by Anna Bartholomew and in this article she reports on the key findings.
Simon Fortt delivered a short presentation (Chemistry – Where in the Invention?) at the University of Cambridge on 09th May 2018.
We observe that the recent introduction of infringement by equivalence from the Supreme Court (2017 UKSC 48; Actavis (UK) Limited v Eli Lilly Company and others) does not mean that purposive interpretation of patent claims has been altogether dropped.
