EU Law weekly highlights—26 June 2025
This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes analyses that the top appeals board at the European Patent Office ruled that examiners must look at the description and drawings when interpreting patents, the Unified Patent Court ruled that Curio Bioscience's Seeker Spatial Mapping Kits infringed patents by 10x Genomics, an EU copyright licensing market for training AI technologies remains underdeveloped due to the reluctance of developers to engage in licensing negotiations, two consultations launched on the Digital Networks Act and considerations of the European Commission’s draft guidelines of the EU Digital Services Act outlining measures for online platforms to protect minors. In addition this week, the Commission has signalled its intention to withdraw the proposal for an EU Green Claims Directive, the Council of the EU agreed on its negotiating position on simplifying corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements, agreed its negotiating position for a new directive aimed at improving trainee working conditions and preventing false traineeships, approved a position to postpone battery due diligence obligation, the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement to simplify and strengthen the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism, the Commission launched a public consultation on its upcoming EU sustainable tourism strategy, launched a call for evidence as part of its planned revision of the Standardisation Regulation and the Commission's Directorate-General for Energy launched a public consultation and call for evidence on the proposed Citizens Energy Package.
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