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The latest patent decisions of the EPO and the UPC, made plain, in your inbox.
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- Primary sources cited
Understanding the law once was never the challenge.
Keeping up with the decisions that keep interpreting it is. The information is all there, spread across hundreds of pages of Guidelines, decisions, and fee tables. What is missing is the time to pull it together.
Everything to stay current, from primary sources.
Fast & reliable answers
Live-Commentary answers procedural questions and backs every answer with the primary source. It typically knows new decisions within 24 hours of online publication.
Current case law, made plain
The blog sums up the decisions of the Boards of Appeal, the Enlarged Board, and the UPC in plain terms. The newsletter delivers the most important ones straight to your inbox.
Fast & reliable answers
Live-Commentary answers procedural questions and backs every answer with the primary source. It typically knows new decisions within 24 hours of online publication.
For deadlines, there is docketing. For case law, there is Rhein-IP.
Deadlines in most firms are watched by docketing software you trust. For case law, there is no equally established counterpart. Staying current means working through journals and commentaries.
Rhein-IP closes that gap. New decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal and the UPC are captured daily and available in Live-Commentary. The blog summarises them in plain language, and the newsletter delivers the most important ones straight to your inbox.
Dr. Mark Standke
Physicist · Software engineer · Patent attorney candidate (Amtsjahr, DPMA)
Read the full storyThe modern commentary.
The classical commentary is a book. It appears in editions, often years apart, and so it trails the current case law. Rhein-IP works continuously. New EPO and UPC decisions are reviewed and are typically available in Live-Commentary within hours of online publication. Every statement is linked to its primary source. The newsletter delivers the most important changes straight to your inbox.
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