For national Swedish patent applications filed on or after 01 July 2014, the application may be examined entirely in English. A complete description of recent changes to the Swedish Patents Act is available at the PRV website: http://prv.se/en/About-us/News/Changes-on-1-July-to-the-Swedish-Patents-Act/. Under the America Invents Act (AIA), a new priority founding application filed after […]
Read MoreKIPA AB a Swedish IP firm today announced that it has again successfully coordinated a pan European litigation leading to a positive ruling for one of it’s clients by the U.K. Patents Court in the High Court of Justice. In the present case, Mr Justice Roth issued a judgment that […]
Read MoreWe are very happy to welcome Linus Byström to the KIPA team. Linus has a background as a European Patent Attorney in private practice as well as Head of IP in a multinational medical device company. KIPA is establishing presence in Gothenburg as an important step in our successful growth […]
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China’s new Trade Mark Law took effect on 1 May 2014. This is the third amendment of the law after previous amendments in 1993 and 2001 respectively since its adoption in 1982. Overall, the new Trade Mark Law is welcome as it introduces principles of honesty and good faith, tightens […]
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The Hague, March 6, 2014 – The European Patent Office (EPO) has invalidated and revoked Edwards Lifesciences’ entire Spenser patent EP2055266 concerning its market-leading Sapien transcatheter aortic heart valve, which has approval in the U.S., Europe and other countries. Amongst the opponents are giants like Medtronic and Boston Scientific. KIPA […]
Read MoreToday, court proceedings in Sweden concerning intellectual property (IP) rights are handled by several different lines of courts, which may not be optimal from a legal certainty point of view and with regard to procedural cost effectiveness. A reform of this system is on the way…
Read MoreThe German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) has revised the German Designs Act with effect from 1 January 2014 and major changes include: – The German term “Geschmacksmuster” has been replaced by the term “registered design”. – A design invalidity proceeding before the GPTO has been introduced. Before, a […]
Read MoreOn October 18, 2013 the Administrative Council of the EPO has voted to amend Rule 36 EPC to remove the highly controversial 24 month time limit applied to European divisional application filings. Starting April 1, 2014, the EPO will return back to ‘old’ practice, namely that …
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