It is long-standing practice for examining divisions at the European Patent Office to require the description of a patent application to be amended into conformity with the allowable claims prior to grant.

However, in 2021, the patent office’s guidelines for examination were updated to make this requirement more stringent. The issue of description amendment has been a hot topic ever since.

This is because of applicants’ and attorneys’ general aversion to substantial amendment to the description […]

The Appeals Court of Massachusetts recently took up another summary process action concerning landlord-tenant rights and Chapter 93A violations in Hayastan Indus., Inc. v. Guz. In a summary decision1, the court affirmed a liability finding against a landlord for Chapter 93A violations under several distinct theories.

Plaintiff, a corporate entity, purchased a manufactured home and the lot it resided on from the bank after defendants defaulted on their loan. Plaintiff then brought a summary process action in the Housing […]