The new system comprised by the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court is intended to start on 1 June 2023. Despite the fact that Portugal is one of the...
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Today we are publishing Part II of a sequence of short FAQ about the European Patent with Unitary Effect. The Part I covering Questions 1 to 4 can be found here: …
Today we start publishing a series of articles in the form of short FAQ about the European Patent with Unitary Effect (EPUE). What is the European Patent with Unitary Effect...
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In April 2022 the Industrial Property Office of Portugal has published the first notifications under the Regulation (EU) 2019/933 that introduced the “manufacturing and export waiver” concerning supplementary protection certificates (SPC). The...
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The Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA) entered into force on 19 January 2022, following the deposit of the instrument of ratification by Austria....
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The Portuguese Government vowed to improve the patent box regime in the proposal of the State Budget recently presented in October 2021. The so called “patent box” is a regime...
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The IP Office of Mozambique has issued a note on Substantive Examination of Patents (Notice 2/2020 published on 15 June 2020). The note evokes the Mozambican patent law regarding patent application procedures...
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