Launch Date of Eurasian Industrial Designs Announced
From 1st June 2021 it will be possible to apply for a Eurasian Design, with applications able to be made either directly with the Eurasian Patent Office or through one of the member states.
The Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit’s (CAFC) recent decision In Re Hu 19-2104 involved consideration of whether patent applications that violated currently established laws of physics were sufficiently enabled and whether the onus of establishing their unpatentability had been discharged.
Invalidity Decision Against Lego’s Building Blocks Held to Not Stack Up
In Lego AS v EUIPO T-515/19 the General Court upheld Lego’s appeal, finding that the EUIPO Boards of Appeal erred in considering whether Lego’s design application relating to a toy building block is invalid.