What is a utility model? If we talk about patents, trademarks or trade secrets, most people would be able to explain in a respectable way how they differ from each…
Juan Arias, Managing Partner of ABG Intellectual Property, was the European representative at the Panel Session “The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Impact on Pharma Patent Prosecution Issues, Including Patent Prosecution…
In the edition that has just been unveiled, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for "the development of a method for genome editing". They will split the…
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Iain McGeoch as an associate of ABG Intellectual Property. Iain joined the ABG team in 2014 and his career has since evolved…
Technology transfer is one of the priorities of the Spanish Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation. In fact, the transmission of scientific and technical knowledge generated in a university environment…
Unfortunately “worldwide patents” do not exist In today’s global market, a product may be designed in one country, manufactured in another or several different locations and ultimately commercialised all over…
For the second year in a row, Financial Times has ranked us in its "Europe's Leading Patent Law Firms" ranking that was published today. This year ABG Intellectual Property figures…
Beginning of 1999. National Algerian Institute for Industrial Property (INAPI) HQ. Algiers (Algeria). Almost six months had passed since the assembly that had gathered all member states the previous September,…
Patents and their territorial scope. The Paris Convention. Patents and utility models have a limited geographical scope, i.e. a patent granted in one country has no effect beyond the territorial…
These days of confinement, when the ABG Intellectual Property team is teleworking, we are also sharing more time with our families. We have taken this opportunity and asked our children…
On 20th March 2020 the German Constitutional Court issued a non-appealable decision upholding the complaint against the German ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court. The main reason…
LAST UPDATE: 12/05/2020 11:11 (GMT +2) Dear user, The pandemic of the new coronavirus has forced exceptional decisions. The state of alarm declared by the Spanish government came into force…
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