“Last year, unitary protection… was requested for about 28,000 patents granted by the EPO, representing slightly more than 25% of all EU patents issued in 2024.” On Tuesday, the European Patent Office ...

“While EU entities led the collective number of unitary patents registered by the EPO, U.S.-based medical technology company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) led all individual entities.” On June 1, one year ...

Ocean Tomo, LLC, the Intellectual Capital Merchant Banc™ firm, announced from IP Business Congress Global (IPBC), the beta release of the Ocean Tomo Ratings™ System for EPO patents. Nine companies, ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) has approved a restricted patent on the Harvard OncoMouse, dealing a setback to activists who fought for 9 years to bar EU patents on living organisms. The EPO on July ...

Beginning in October 2025, the European Patent Office (EPO) will accept patent drawings in color or grayscale when filed electronically.[1] By allowing more detailed and visually accurate ...

Companies including Siemens, Bayer and Ericsson say they just want ‘thorough and complete’ examinations after an EPO memo suggests an ‘arbitrary’ reallocation of applications A group of in-house ...

Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:MRNA) has reportedly achieved a significant victory at the European Patent Office (EPO) in its ongoing legal battle with Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ:BNTX) over ...

The Background: While the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Amgen's functionally defined anti-PCSK9 antibody claims based on its high bar for enablement, the European Patent Office ("EPO") found such broad ...

The EPO’s reallocation of certain patent applications could have legitimate reasons, but a clearer message would help avoid scrutiny You may have noticed a headline on Managing IP this week about ...

The European Patent Office (EPO) granted the Oncomouse patent to DuPont in 1992, despite opposition by animal rights groups who charged it was cruel to engineer an animal to die a painful death. The ...

Roy Schestowitz on Mar 18, 2026. Not going to work all month long. There are plans brewing for EPO industr ...