Copyright in the Digital Single Market

Sep 17, 2018 | Copyright, News

On 12 September 2018 the European Parliament approved, with important tweaks, the proposal for a directive on Copyright law of the Committee on Legal Affairs of June 2018 The more debated amendments regard Articles 11 and 13. Art. 11 on the ‘protection of press...

Patents: fair compensation for non-remunerated inventions ex art. 64 C.P.I.; The Milan Court of Appeal confirms employer’s duty also in the case it has not patented the employee’s invention, but it has transferred it to a third party.

Jul 6, 2018 | News, Patents

The decision n. 3165/2018 has been published on 27 June 2018 in a proceedings in which an inventor employee has been assisted by Studio Legale Sena e Tarchini against the employer company belonging to a multinational group. It has confirmed that the employer company...

Increase in the number of Patents granted by the EPO

Apr 23, 2018 | News, Patents

On March 7, 2018 the EPO published its Annual Report for  2017 which is available on its website (www.epo.org/about-us/annual-reports-statistics/annula-report/2017.html).The report shows a general growth in european patent filings and grants by the EPO, especially in...