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01. April 2020

***UPDATE*** In the meantime, the Federal Government has reacted to the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court and declared that it intends to remedy the identified ...

19. March 2020

On 11 March 2020, the WHO Director-General declared the situation on diseases with the novel Coronaviruses (COVID-19) to be a pandemic. ...

13. February 2020

The revised Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) came into force at the beginning of 2020. As a result ...

10. February 2020

In the European patent applications EP 18 275 163 and EP 18 275 174, the receiving office of the European Patent Office dealt with the question of whether the naming ...