A cooking recipe is substantially made up of a list of ingredients and of a method that teaches how to unite them together, therefore, in brief, it is a procedure that allows to obtain a product. This procedure, and/or the product obtained, can be patented on condition that it is new and inventive and that […]
Category Archives: Patents & Inventions
Essential patents: first to sue should notify
The Court of Justice (Judgment. 16.07.2015 in Case C-170/13) has recently dealt with the so-called “essential patents” relating to particular telecommunications companies. It is constant rule that these companies have the need to use some standards without which it would be impossible to make a working phone. These standards are covered by patents not only […]
Patent Box: Update
The italian Patent Box is still waiting the implementing decree which should provide guidance on the calculation mechanism of the tax provided for in Article. 1 co. 37-45 of Law 190/2014. At the moment it is still unclear how to calculate the ratio of research and development costs incurred for the intangible asset and the […]
Morocco recognises European patents as national patents
Morocco is the first non-member country of the European Patent Organisation to validate the legal effects of a European patent on its territory. A historic step for the European patent system, which brings to 41 the number of countries for which patent protection can be obtained simultaneously with a single European patent application. The legal […]