{"id":1960,"date":"2015-12-15T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivir00.websites.xs4all.nl\/nl\/activities\/symposium-patent-warming-is-the-inventive-step-analysis-to-blame\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:06:59","slug":"symposium-patent-warming-is-the-inventive-step-analysis-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"activities","link":"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/nl\/activities\/symposium-patent-warming-is-the-inventive-step-analysis-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium: Patent warming – is the inventive step analysis to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t19 December 2015, 11:00 – 16:30
\n\tChair: Bernt Hugenholtz<\/a>
\n\tAgnietenkapel – Universiteit van Amsterdam
\n\tOudezijds Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFree entry, registration required (see below)<\/em><\/strong>
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\n\tOver the last three decades the world has witnessed a dramatic growth in patents. For example, in the United States annual patent grants have risen from 66,000 in 1980 to well over 300,000 today. Similar trends, albeit a bit more modest, can be observed in Europe. And in countries with a shorter patent tradition, figures are telling the same, or an even more remarkable story. In China, for example, the number of grants has increased more than tenfold since 2000. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis led the former President of the European Patent Office, Alison Brimelow, to liken the (alleged) overheating of the patent system to climate change. According to her the situation is ‘a bit like global warming: it is changing; you don’t know where it is going; you don’t know what the problems are.’<\/p>\n

\n\tIn this symposium we will turn our attention to one of the possible causes: the inventive step analysis. Might it be the case that the main gatekeeper of the patent fortress has gradually become less vigilant — perhaps even to such a degree that the whole patent empire may be put in danger? Or should we look elsewhere to find the causes of ‘global patent warming’ (if it exists at all)?<\/p>\n

\n\tSix speakers will share with us their (varying) views on the subject:<\/p>\n