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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 ...

The court announcing it will follow the EPO on inventive step, a case with a Chinese element, and three big settlements were among the top talking points this fortnight For this edition, we start with ...