Identity of Applicants for Priority Rights and the EPO’s CRISPR-Cas/Broad Institute Decision T 0844/18 ‒ Scope of the EPO’s ‘Formal Review’ to Establish Identity of the Holder of the Priority Right

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Haedicke
Keyword(s):  
European Patent ◽  
Patent Cooperation Treaty ◽  
Broad Institute ◽  
Subsequent Application

Abstract The Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.08 (hereinafter ‘the Board’) has handed down the much-awaited written decision regarding the denial of the CRISPR/Cas9 patent EP2771468. The Board did not acknowledge the patentee’s claim to priority from a provisional US application naming more applicants than the subsequent Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application from which the European patent was derived. The Board considered the priority claim invalid because there was no identity between the applicants of the prior and subsequent application. This article does not second-guess the ‘all applicants’ approach as confirmed by the Board, but considers the consequences of the decision for the claiming of priority by the ‘same applicants’

16. Procedure for grant of a patent

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Bently ◽  
B. Sherman ◽  
D. Gangjee ◽  
P. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Patent Application ◽  
European Patent Office ◽  
European Patent ◽  
Patent Office ◽  
Patent Cooperation Treaty ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Uk

This chapter explains the processes involved in granting patents as well as the factors that applicants must take into account when deciding whether to patent an invention in the UK. The role of patent agents and the choice of route to take to secure grant of the patent are considered. The chapter then documents the procedures in the application for a patent, paying particular attention to some of the key features of the UK and European Patent Office patent application processes together with the Patent Cooperation Treaty. It also describes situations in which applicants and patentees are able to amend their applications and the restrictions under which such amendments operate. Finally, it looks at a number of proposals to reform the patent procedure.

5. The Procedure for Obtaining a European Patent

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-138
Author(s):  
Justine Pila ◽  
Paul L.C. Torremans
Keyword(s):  
Patent Application ◽  
European Patent Office ◽  
European Patent ◽  
Patent Office ◽  
Patent Cooperation Treaty ◽  
Patent Quality ◽  
European Patent Convention ◽  
International Patent

This chapter considers the procedure for obtaining a European patent directly from the European Patent Office (EPO) and indirectly from a competent patent office of a European Patent Convention (EPC) Contracting State or by international patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty 1970. It also considers the result of each procedure, and the focus within the European patent community on reducing the burden on patent applicants and improving patent quality with a view to minimizing the risk of a patent's revocation post-grant.

Theoretical justifi cation for use of combined methods for hardening of surfaces of machine parts in order to control their fretting resistance

2020 ◽  
pp. 339-342
Author(s):  
V.F. Bez’yazychny ◽  
M.V. Timofeev ◽  
R.V. Lyubimov ◽  
E.V. Kiselev
Keyword(s):  
Surface Layer ◽  
Fatigue Limit ◽  
Surface Hardening ◽  
Theoretical Justification ◽  
Hardening Process ◽  
Subsequent Application ◽  
Machine Parts ◽  
Combined Methods

The theoretical justification for the hardening process of the surface layer of machine parts for combined methods of surface hardening with subsequent application of strengthening coatings, as well as reducing or increasing the fatigue limit due to the fretting process is presented.

How success enhances self-serving bias: A multinomial process model of the Implicit Association Test

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyang Wang ◽  
Yi Li ◽  
Zheng Jin ◽  
Timothy Tamunang Tamutana
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Regulation Mechanism ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
Desirable Outcome ◽  
Subsequent Application ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Better Than

Self-serving bias is individuals' belief that leads them to blame external forces when bad things happen and to give themselves credit when good things happen. To evaluate how underlying evaluative associations toward the self or others differ between individuals, and/or how the regulation mechanism of the influence of such associations differs, we used a multinomial process model to measure the underlying implicit self-esteem in these processes with 56 Chinese undergraduate students. The results indicated that participants assessed themselves as being better than others when their performance was followed by a desirable outcome. Subsequent application of the quadruple processes showed that both activation of positive associations toward self and regulation of the associations played important roles in attitudinal responses. Our findings may provide a supplementary explanation to that of previous results, promoting understanding of the mechanism underlying self-serving bias.

Protecting User Interfaces

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noam Shemtov
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Graphical User Interfaces ◽  
Unfair Competition ◽  
European Patent ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights Protection

This chapter examines the scope of protection to which graphical user interfaces may be eligible under various intellectual property rights: namely, trade marks, unfair-competition laws, design rights, copyright, and patents. It first considers the extent of copyright protection over a software product’s ‘look-and-feel’ elements, with particular emphasis on graphical user interfaces protection under US and EU laws. It then discusses trade-mark, trade-dress, and unfair-competition protection for graphical user interfaces, along with intellectual property rights protection for design patents and registered designs. Finally, it describes the patent protection for graphical user interfaces in the United States and at the European Patent Office.

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