Tag: European Patent Office

  • Prysmian files legal proceedings for patents’ infringements against Emtelle UK

    Prysmian files legal proceedings for patents’ infringements against Emtelle UK

    Prysmian announced to have commenced proceedings for patent infringement in the UK High Court against Emtelle UK Limited.

    Prysmian claims that Emtelle’s FibreFlow products infringe the UK designations of Prysmian’s European Patents EP (UK) 1,420,279 B1 and EP (UK) 1,668,392B1 for fibre optic cables.

    The European Patent EP ‘392 relates to telecommunication optical cables, and in particular to a telecommunication optical cable with a highly reduced diameter.

    The European Patent EP ‘279 relates to optical fibre telecommunications cables, particularly an optimized stranded optical cable design.

  • Austria registered 2.341 new patents in 2019

    Austria registered 2.341 new patents in 2019

    Austrian companies and researchers registered 2.341 new patents at the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2019, says Invest in Austria.

    The 2.341 patent applications submitted to the European Patent Office (EPO) surpassed the previous record of 2.281 applications in 2018.

    ABA writes that ”The most patents were registered in the segment of electrical machinery, apparatus and energy (2019: 249), followed by the field of transport (2019: 190)”.

    Borealis leads the list of applicants, registering 179 patents

    Tritonic placed second with 77 patents registered, followed by AMS with 65.

    The most European patent applications originated in Vienna (614) in the year 2019. Upper Austria (478) and Styria (325) placed second and third respectively.