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• MARQUES comments on leaked European Trademark draft legislation and struggles with implementation of ‘IP Translator’ 21. März 2013
  In February this year the European trademark community took note of a leaked version of the European Commissions’s draft trademark legislation in reaction to the widely discussed Study on the Overall Functioning of the European Trademark System presented by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in February 2011 (pdf, 4.5 MB). The […]
• Aspects of the UPC (1): Transitional Scheme and Opt-Out 13. März 2013
  The new European patent system will provide two concurrent routes to patent protection on the continent, (i.) the classical EP bundle patent, “which does not benefit from unitary effect by virtue of EU Reg No 1257/2012” and thus has to be validated in each EPC member state where protection is sought and (ii.) […]
• EU Unified Patent Court: Preparatory Committee To Start Work Soon 11. März 2013
  With Document 7265/13 dated March 08, 2013, the Irish EU Presidency has published some information concerning setting up of the Preparatory Committee in the context of the […]
• 10 aspects of the AIA that are (somehow) comparable to European provisions 6. März 2013
  The final package of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R.1249, pdf) will enter into force on 16 March 2013 (for a list of amendments and their effective dates, see here). By this date, the most significant amendments of the new Act will enter into force, namely the transformation from the traditional first-to-invent regime to the […]
• The America Invents Act for German Readers 1. März 2013
  On March 16, 2013, the final (third) package of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (H.R.1249, pdf) will enter into force. This will include the transition from the traditional US fist-to-invent system to the first-to-file system as used in the rest of the world. In a recent press release the USPTO announced publication of the […]