IP - non credere - A sceptical view on IP related statistics

Another draft of the Rules for the Unitary Patent has been leaked [1] . It should be noted that the Select Committee issued a communiqu...

Those of a mercantilist tendency will be interested in the balance of patents - the number of patents filed abroad from one's country wi...

Having an idle moment I thought to look to the WIPO IP Statistics Data Center  where all sorts of fun can be had by the avid nerd. The data ...

In my posting last week [Pangloss strikes again] I looked to filing numbers at the European Patent Office. A reader asks "Any idea wh...

Here we are again In a recurring ritual the EPO has announced in a press release today "Patent filings at the EPO reach all-time hig...

In a previous post I commented on the lack of growth in patent filings at the European Patent Office. The  World Intellectual Property Indi...

While looking over the background to the unitary patent, and idly wondering what rules the EPO will introduce to manage it, I came across th...