Switzerland remains a comparative front-runner of European ingenuity, according to the European Patent Office. As a measure of what it calls “the inventiveness of Europe’s leading economies”, the patent office reported on Thursday that the Swiss have the highest ratio of European patent applications to population. In 2015, Switzerland had 873 applications per million inhabitants, … Read more
Qualcomm Inc. said it reached a new patent-licensing deal with Lenovo Group Ltd., the last remaining holdout among China’s five largest smartphone makers. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal. But they said Lenovo will pay unspecified royalties to Qualcomm for sales in China of handsets based on both 3G and 4G cellular … Read more
RICHMOND – Matthew Osenga, an attorney who specializes in intellectual property and patent prosecution, said that in all his years of practicing law, he has had only one case in which somebody came to him fearing a lawsuit about a fraudulent patent claim. What happened? “We chose to not do anything, and nothing came of … Read more
Last week, the Constitutional Court of Turkey declared an important decision on two basic points that have not received enough attention in the media. These points are closely related to the basic rights and freedoms that have been prescribed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and that the European Court of Human Rights … Read more