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One Europe, One Patent? New European Unitary Patent Comes into Effect June 1

By Ashley M. Robinson on May 24, 2023

Posted in Inventorship, Patent, Patent Applications

In June 2023, the European Union (EU) will introduce the European Unitary Patent. At the outset, the European Unitary Patent will be enforceable in the 17 States that have ratified the agreement between the EU and the EPO: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia…

Bacon and a Heavy Burden: Significant Contribution Required To Be a Joint Inventor

By Stephanie D. Scruggs on May 9, 2023

Posted in Inventorship, Patent

Efforts by HIP, Inc. to have David Howard added as an inventor to Hormel’s U.S. Patent No. 9,980,498 (Bacon Patent) were recently scorched by the Federal Circuit. More specifically, in HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation (22-1696), a unanimous panel reversed the District of Delaware’s finding that Howard was a joint inventor of the…

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One Europe, One Patent? New European Unitary Patent Comes into Effect June 1

Bacon and a Heavy Burden: Significant Contribution Required To Be a Joint Inventor

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