European business urge continued UK involvement in UPC on eve of Competitiveness Council meeting

Last time the AmeriKat wrote about the Competitiveness Council and the UPC she was a mere kitten It was November 2011.  The AmeriKat was spe...

Wednesday Whimsies

Eleonora has keeping IPKat in the loop as the new rules emerged IPKat's very own Eleonora Rosati has been featured in a recent Financial...

Latest thoughts about Brexit and the UPC

Sudden moments of clarity are always a good look for IPKat It has certainly been a long time coming and we still can't be sure that a UP...

Book Review: European Patent Litigation in the Shadow of the Unified Patent Court

There is a perverse incentive in research that it is not in a scholar's interests for a problem to be solved. If your pet problem is sol...

Conference Report: Should you arbitrate FRAND rates?

The AmeriKat in standard essential form At the last day of June, the First Joint Seminar on SEP/FRAND Mediation and Arbitration co-organise...