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…
The advent of aviation in the early 20th century meant that society no longer had its feet on the ground. It revolutionised transport and trade and finally fulfilled the dream…
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…
Author: Patricia Guillén The Tribunal de l'entreprise de Liège (Belgium) is hearing a dispute between the folding bike company Brompton Bicycle Ltd and one of its competitors, the Korean company…
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…
According to the latest statistics from the European Patent Office, medical technology has the second highest number of applications after digital communication. In 2019, 128 applications of Spanish origin were…
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…
On March 2nd 2020 Board of Appeal 3.3.02 of the EPO issued a decision (T 0709/17) providing guidance on the selection of suitable starting points when the closest prior art…
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