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.

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

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...