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European Patent Office
August 01, 2010
The European Patent Organisation will welcome its 38th member state on 1 October 2010.
July 26, 2010
EPO President Benoît Battistelli highlighted the role the patent system can play in providing information on green technologies in a keynote speech at the DPMA last week.
July 25, 2010
We are now accepting proposals for the European Inventor Award 2011. The closing date for entries has been extended to 30 September 2010.
July 12, 2010
Hearing on the "broccoli and tomato" cases before the European Patent Office's Enlarged Board of Appeal on 20 and 21 July 2010
June 30, 2010
A French national, he succeeds Alison Brimelow of the UK, who has headed the EPO since July 2007.
June 29, 2010
The outgoing EPO President gave her final speech to the Administrative Council today.
June 28, 2010
The Director General of the Danish Patent and Trademark Office was unanimously elected as Chairman at the Administrative Council's 124th meeting.
June 24, 2010
The EPO President received the award from Managing IP magazine at a ceremony in London yesterday.
June 13, 2010
71% of corporate counsels say the quality of European patents is "excellent or very good" according to a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters and IAM magazine.
June 10, 2010
The EPO's new classification scheme for climate change mitigation technologies was presented to the public for the first time at a UNFCCC side event on patents and clean energy in Bonn this week.
May 31, 2010
Delegates at the PATLIB2010 conference discussed how patent information centres in the EPO's member states can adapt their services to the needs of today's user community.
May 11, 2010
Today the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO handed down its opinion on referral G3/08, taking the opportunity to set out and confirm the approach of the EPO regarding the patentability of computer programs under the European Patent Convention (EPC).
April 30, 2010
Albania becomes the 37th member state of the EPO. European patents are now valid in up to 40 countries and reach a market of about 570 million people.
April 29, 2010
Speakers debated ways to encourage the development of environmentally-friendly technologies on the final day of the European Patent Forum 2010.
April 27, 2010
Delegates at the European Patent Forum in Madrid discussed measures to keep European industries competitive in emerging clean energy markets.
April 27, 2010
Wolfgang Krätschmer, who discovered a whole new field of research in physics, took home the trophy in the Lifetime Achievement category.
April 25, 2010
Two days before the European Inventor Awards 2010, we hear from the nominees in all categories how they reacted to the news that they were in the running for the prize.
April 25, 2010
Against the general downward trend, there was a double-digit increase in filings in wind and water power, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy and biomass in 2009.
April 18, 2010
The heads of the world's five largest IP offices - the EPO, JPO, KIPO, SIPO and USPTO - met in Guilin, China, on 15 and 16 April.
March 29, 2010
New rules concerning search and examination at the EPO, and time limits for the filing of divisional applications enter into force on 1 April 2010
March 29, 2010
The EPO's branch at The Hague and its staff spend more than EUR 885 million per year in the Dutch economy and generate some 5 800 jobs.
March 07, 2010
Twelve candidates from nine countries have been shortlisted for the European Inventor Award 2010. The winners will be announced in Madrid on 28 April.
March 02, 2010
The EPO opposition division came to this decision after hearing the parties in opposition oral proceedings.
March 01, 2010
EPO President Alison Brimelow gave the 2010 Francis Gurry Intellectual Property Lecture at the Melbourne Law School.
March 01, 2010
An EPO opposition division has to decide on Wednesday and Thursday whether to maintain a patent granted in the field of agriculture and opposed by a coalition of organisations, including Greenpeace Germany.
February 28, 2010
French candidate received the required qualified majority of the votes cast.
February 25, 2010
The negotiations are part of the European Patent Office's support to the EU's Neighbourhood Policy.
February 25, 2010
The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation will once again vote to elect the next President of the European Patent Office (EPO).
February 21, 2010
ECAP III, a European Commission-funded initiative aimed at strengthening IPRs in ten Asian countries, builds on the success of two earlier projects.
February 02, 2010
The same procedure will continue, with the existing pool of candidates, at an extraordinary Council meeting on 1 March 2010
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Recent News
February 2010 – IP Forecaster commence work on new trademark module
Development of our new trade mark module has started as is well underway and we expect beta testing with a select group of clients later this year. If you are interested in becoming a beta tester, please contact us.January 2010 – IP Forecaster - Latest software update
In Financial Forecasting, at step 3 which shows filing, prosecution, grant and renewal costs in the countries you have selected to file in, there are now some additional features:- On both the "View NRPH costs as a PDF" and "View NRPH costs as Excel Document", there is now the ability to add in EPO validation costs to these reports.
- If you choose to export the whole report to either pdf or Excel at this stage of the Financial Forecaster, ("View as a PDF" & "View as an Excel document") there is now the ability to choose whether to add in annuity (renewals) costs for these reports, and also to select the number of renewal years to be shown on the reports.
December 2009 – Thailand joins the PCT
The treaty entered into force for Thailand on 24th December 2009 and is the 142nd member of the PCT. IP Forecaster has been updated to reflect this change.Name Change and New portfolio of NetsPat products
IP Pragmatics acquired the company NetsPat and its own branded patent management software in 2007. Since then, the NetsPat patent management software system has been extensively redeveloped and now features much additional functionality. The new version of the software was launched at a user forum meeting held in London in September 2008.In October 2009, the software was rebranded to IP Forecaster, and expanded to include three new products:
IP Forecaster – an online patent cost budgeting tools including:
- Instant and accurate patent budgets online
- Costs are shown over a time line
- We use real data from attorney firms worldwide
- Full customisation to your currency and home attorney rates
- Forecast spend on an individual case or portfolio basis
IP Forecaster Integrated – all the functions of IP Forecaster integrated with your existing patent records or docketing system including:
- No need for double data entry, updating is carried out automatically from your existing records system
- Add patent budgeting and cost forecasting functionality to your existing records system
- Let your clients produce their own budgets direct from your existing records system
- Upgrades available to include the full functionality of Forecaster Pro as part of the integrated offering
IP Forecaster Pro – a comprehensive case management and cost forecasting system which can be used to collate and database your entire patent portfolio to give a clear picture of its current and future status including:
- All the functions of IP Forecaster PLUS
- A case management system including document storage
- A timeline mapping critical IP-related events
- A diary and reminder system
- The ability to model the cost implications of different filing programs
Adam Wylie, IP Pragmatics' Managing Director, Services said:
"The new name for NetsPat, IP Forecaster reflects the software's growing capabilities and future development plans. The new product set provides our customers with a number of flexible options which allows them to select a patent costing tool that fulfils their patent management and budgeting needs. All of the new products offer the high levels of functionality and delivery of accurate, up-to-date costs that have always been associated with NetsPat products."
September 2009
Thailand becomes the 142nd Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) contracting state. Thailand (TH) became the 142nd PCT Contracting State on 24 September 2009. The PCT will enter into force for that State on 24 December 2009. IP Forecaster will be reprogrammed to reflect this change, effective December 24th 2009.Find more news articles in our corporate IP Pragmatics site.