3

March

2023

Jnews

Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court

On February 17 Germany ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement (better known as UPCA according to its English acronym) and the Agreement will definitely entry into force on…

J-news

10

February

2023

Jnews

EPO report shows a terrific increase of patents in Quantum Computing

The EPO has published an “insight report” on the trend of patents in the Quantum Computing Field, which can be found here: Quantum Computing - Insight report.

J-news

8

February

2023

Jnews

France: News on utility certificates

The French utility certificates have gained renewed interest since the PACTE law of 2019.

J-news

30

January

2023

Jnews

Update on UPC opt-out

The entry into force of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (better known as UPCA according to its English acronym) has been postponed to June 1, 2023.

J-news

2

November

2022

Jnews

UPC Opt-Out

We are writing to you with regard to your European patent applications/ European patents for which our firm acts as representative before the EPO.

J-curiosity

31

October

2022

Jcuriosity

Halloween

We are approaching Halloween, a magical night with Irish origins, whose universal Halloween symbol is the carved pumpkin with a face. The Halloween pumpkin symbol originated a…

26

August

2022

Jcuriosity

J curiosity - summer edition 2022

From now until the end of July, our J-Curiosity column will be colored by summer.... We will keep you company with some patent or design curiosities to remind those who are still…

10

June

2022

Marchi, Jcases

NUXE vs HANUXE: are the trademarks confusingly similar?

In a decision rendered on May 25, 2022, EUIPO’s Opposition Division reaffirmed the relevance, for the purposes of establishing similarity between the signs, of the fact that the…

20

May

2022

Jcases, Food & Wine

Morellino di Scansano vs Morellone

The First Board of Appeal of EUIPO was recently called to rule on whether PDOs and PGIs consisting of a compound name should receive a protection that is not limited to the name…