Samuel Adams, Author at Kluwer Patent Blog

Can two wrongs make a right at the EPO?

Samuel Adams (Müller-Boré & Partner)/April 26, 2019April 26, 2019 /9 Comments

Not too long ago we learned of a referral question from Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.03 regarding the legal basis for holding oral proceedings before the Boards of Appeal in Haar rather than in Munich. While it does not directly relate to the legal question in the referral, a relevant consideration was recently published in…

EPO, Investment, Treasury

More Flexible Investment Guidelines for the European Patent Office

Samuel Adams (Müller-Boré & Partner)/January 31, 2018February 1, 2018 /6 Comments

Recently, “New Investment Guidelines of the European Patent Office” (CA/F 18/17 Rev. 1) was published among the “Administrative Council documents” on the EPO web site. The Investment Guidelines relate to management of the treasury of the EPO and outline a more flexible approach for investing the funds in the treasury. In particular, rather than being…