RELEASE OF TKDL

The traditional knowledge Digital Library has been released. This ambitious project has been brought with a desire to protect India’’s Traditional knowledge. The EPO will now consult the above before granting a patent. This will pevent many cases where traditional knowledge has been sought to be patented by those of other countires.

PATENT SUPER HIGHWAY

The EPO has just announced that the Patent Prosecution Highway (their capitals) is due to begin on 29 September.  This scheme will allow patent applications that have been examined and allowed in either the USPTO or the EPO to be fast-tracked in the other office.  The programme will run for a trial period of 1 year, after which the offices will assess whether it is worth being fully implemented