Patent decisions of european judges may have cross-border effect, either in actions for infringement or for revocation …. The project of a community patent system foresee a single central court, with cross-border authority. This solution is … wrong; there is no need of a centralized patent court …

The paper compares and contrasts the patent-based indicators, traditionally used to assess a country’s technological … being misleading. Empirically, the paper is based on the statistical information on patent activity of the top-10 patenting … countries. It concludes with a clear demonstration of the need to employ a complex of patent-related indicators to make …

This report highlights the main UK patent decisions from 2017, including a major Supreme Court infringement case …