The European Patent Office has for the first time in its five-decade history received more than 200,000 patent applications in a year, according to the Office’s annual Patent Index published on ... Thirty-nine contracting nations of the European Patent Convention—a separate treaty more inclusive than EU membership—have organized a unified European Patent Office (the EPO). Instead of applying ...

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113 patent applications in 2025 have propelled DTU (the Technical University of Denmark) to the very top of a new top 20 list published by the European Patent Office. 113 patent applications in 2025 ... JD Supra: Could European Courts Soon Be Litigating and Enforcing U.S. Patents?

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Could we be on the verge of a future where U.S. patents are regularly litigated in European courts? It seems to be a wild question, but it is precisely the issue before courts in Munich, Germany and ... The European Commission last week released for consultation a proposal to re-work certain elements of the EU pharmaceutical patent system and industry group Medicines for Europe is calling for the ... JD Supra: European Courts Can Now Weigh In on U.S.

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