Attorneys can tailor obviousness arguments to the EPO’s problem-solution approach and to individual examiners at the USPTO, say sources The USPTO and EPO are two of the most important patent offices ...

“The CD did not set out any alternative methodology for assessing inventive step, but it explicitly disapproved of the ‘closest prior art’ approach and thereby implicitly rejected the ...

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In the first of a two-part series, European patent attorneys at Syngenta and HGF explore the issues underlying the G2/21 referral and what it all means for rights owners In any case, in the ...

If the invention is initially claimed only in broad terms, the examiner may narrowly read the claims to avoid prior art. If such mistakes are made, the subject-matter is claimed too broadly from the ...