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G 1/25, issued today, holds that the description must be adapted only where an “inconsistency” between the claims and description causes non-compliance with another requirement of the EPC. Legal basis for adaptation of the description, says the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA), can thus be found in the relevant EPC provision. The EBA defines our new word of the moment, "inconsiste...

Back-to-school season has returned, bringing fresh notebooks, growing shopping lists and, perhaps, less time for IP news. This Kat, meanwhile, admired the aesthetic on Pinterest while catching up on the summer goals she had expertly procrastinated. Here is what you may have missed."What's school?"CopyrightKatfriend Alberto Godioli examined what the ODEE–Samherji dispute and its ...

In a copyright law dispute between Michael Hayden (claimant) and Jeff Koons (defendant), the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the claimant’s copyright infringement claim failed because of the statute of limitations: a ‘reasonable copyright owner’ would have learned of the alleged infringement and brought it before the court much earlier than Hayden did. Backg...

The list of courts willing to reach across borders after BSH v Electrolux has a new entry. Katfriend Peter Ling (Lenz & Staehelin) provides the following analysis of the Swiss Federal Patent Court's first cross-border preliminary injunction decision, in which jurisdiction was accepted over the foreign designations of a European patent but the injunction was nonetheless refus...