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EPO - Patent Index 2020
Daily NewsTuesday, 30 March 2021Daniel van Herck41 viewsRead more...2020: Strong growth in healthcare and life sciences. Patent filings at the EPO reflect the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on different technology fields. Sharp falls in some sectors have been countered by surges elsewhere, with medical technologies in the lead and major growth in both pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Insights 2020 Demand for European patents stable. In 2020, the EPO receive ...
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Microsoft Thinks We Can All Be James Bond, Wants to Ship Products to Moving Cars
Daily NewsTuesday, 16 March 2021Daniel van Herck46 viewsRead more...Microsoft receives patent for UAV en route product delivery system Microsoft has recently received a patent for its UAV en route product delivery system. The system disclosed in the patent enables dr ...
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Labelmakers secures world-leading tech for liner recycling
Daily NewsTuesday, 09 March 2021Daniel van Herck80 viewsRead more...Labelmakers Group has secured the rights for the worldwide patented RecuLiner technology for Australia and New Zealand, creating a local circular solution for recycling glassine liner from pressure-s ...
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Patent Office Declares AI Cannot Be An Inventor, Stuns AI Devotees, Has Impacts For Self-Driving Cars
Daily NewsMonday, 25 May 2020Daniel van Herck439 viewsRead more...Can AI be an inventor? According to a recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the answer seems to be no. There is more to this story, though, and we’ll need to push past the s ...
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The opposition before the French patent office : starting shot !
Daily NewsMonday, 27 April 2020Daniel van Herck307 viewsRead more...in April was the launch of the opposition procedure before the French Patent Office (“Institut National de la Propriété Intellectuelle” or “INPI”). This procedure is a new way to challenge the validit ...
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België dient recordaantal octrooi-aanvragen in bij Europees Octrooibureau
Daily NewsTuesday, 14 April 2020Daniel van Herck268 viewsRead more...Het aantal octrooi-aanvragen van Belgische bedrijven, universiteiten en onderzoeksinstellingen bij het Europees Octrooibureau (EOB) is in 2019 met 3,2% gestegen tot 2.423, het hoogste aantal ooit. Dat ...