Updating of the SCP electronic forum website

By BKM | Berkemeyer

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP), at its thirty-third session held in Geneva, Switzerland, agreed that the information concerning certain aspects of national/regional patent laws, published on the SCP electronic forum website, would be updated based on input received from Member States.

Consequently, the Secretariat updated the SCP electronic forum website, which contains information concerning certain aspects of national/regional patent laws, namely, prior art, novelty, inventive step (non-obviousness), grace period, sufficiency of disclosure, exclusions from patentable subject matter and exceptions and limitations to the rights.

If Member States and regional patent offices so wish, under agenda item 5 entitled “Report on the international patent system: Certain aspects of national/regional patent laws”, they may share information on recent developments of national/regional patent laws with respect to the aspects mentioned above or various aspects of patent law in general.

The SCP also unanimously elected, for one year, Mr. Leopoldo Belda Soriano (Spain) as Chair and Ms. Berta Dávalos from Paraguay as Vice Chair.