German Patent Attorney Kan Hasegawa: “Has the UPC Abandoned the Problem–Solution Approach?”
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Article type: Case note
Category: Europe
Topics: Inventive step
First published on this website: 2026-11-01
Display and classification checked: November 2, 2026
Originally published on Ameblo: 2024-11-05 (Japan time). Full English translation.
An article by Kan Hasegawa, German and Japanese patent attorney
“Has the UPC Abandoned the Problem–Solution Approach?”
If the Unified Patent Court changes Europe's distinctive inventive-step logic (selection of the primary reference), might at least the logic of inventive-step assessment be moving toward a common worldwide approach?
—A double standard with the European Patent Office would be complicated…
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