Category: Patent & Other IP Offices
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Türkiye launches new patent fee incentives for SMEs, AI innovators
Türkiye has introduced new patent fee incentives, offering a 75% reduction in selected fees for first-time SME applicants and a 50% discount on expedited search reports for qualifying AI inventions.
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CNIPA’s five-year plan spans pre-filing commercial assessments, AI-assisted inventions, possible SEP pilot, drug patent linkage disputes
To help bring inventions to market, China’s patent office will study how to assess their commercial prospects before filing. Its five-year plan also addresses how AI affects inventive step, a possible SEP examination pilot and closer coordination of patent validity challenges with disputes over generic drug entry.
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EPO sets out six priorities for strengthening Europe’s technology transfer
A new EPO study of over 800 technology transfer offices reveals that European universities now own as many patents as their U.S. counterparts, but with a fraction of the commercialization capacity. The gap between ownership and impact is widening, and the report lays out six priorities for closing it.
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USPTO Director again discretionarily denies IPR over petitioner’s purported links to Chinese state
John A. Squires has already nixed several IPRs on the grounds that petitioners had failed to name “real-parties-in-interest” that may be ineligible foreign governments.
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UPC’s CD Milan assumes jurisdiction over declaratory judgment concerning future divisionals and over anti-abandonment injunctions
The UPC’s CD Milan has taken an expansive stance on declaratory and injunctive relief for the purpose of thwarting the so-called divisional game, but has also recognized the need for appellate guidance.
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University of Washington DNA sequencing patent at center of $245M damages award survives second PTAB run
Guardant Health petitioned for IPR of the patent in response to a district court infringement complaint brought by the university and TwinStrand Biosciences.
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China, Hong Kong-based defendants now account for roughly one-third of new UPC infringement and PI cases
Chinese and Hong Kong-based defendants now account for about a third of new UPC infringement and PI cases and face above-average injunction rates, as the UPC stays few cases pending EPO oppositions.
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China links patent rulings to customs enforcement: solar disputes could disrupt global deliveries before goods leave port
A patent fight in China could disrupt overseas deliveries before goods leave a port. With solar singled out for stronger protection, closer links between administrative rulings and customs enforcement may raise the stakes of licensing negotiations across global supply chains.
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Valtrus patent upheld by Federal Circuit after Google challenges Word doc metadata as pre-AIA invention proof
Automatically generated metadata can independently corroborate inventor testimony, the panel opined.
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UK IPO seeks views on feasibility of FRAND Opinion Service
The UK is exploring a less formal approach to SEP licensing disputes, with a proposed IPO-led service offering independent, non-binding assessments of whether licensing offers fall within a plausible FRAND range.