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The UK’s transitional arrangement with the EU in the wake of its formal exit finally came to an end on 31st December 2020. Companies who have previously relied on registered and unregistered E...
The medical and health technology sectors are in the midst of a period of rapid and sustained innovation. As the more traditional MedTech sectors mature, the rapid ongoing advances in computer t...
A recent decision of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office makes it clear that oral proceedings can take place via videoconference. This paves the way for the backlog of hearings that h...
Recent technological advances have made the recent “COVID-19” lockdown slightly more bearable than it would have been if it had happened, for instance, 20 years ago. With the rise of social ...
The UK has formally ended its participation in the unitary patent project by withdrawing its earlier ratification of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA). In a statement to the House...
Following the numerous notices and decisions issued by the European Patent Office, setting out its COVID-19 provisions, we provide the following summary of the latest guidance regarding time limits an...
News on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) this month has been like London buses – no news for months and then one update, followed by another, and now a third. The latest news is that Christine Lambrec...
The UK has supported the creation of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent (UP) since its inception. In recent years, the government has fought for London to have part of the main branch...
Earlier this month, we brought you news of an IPEC decision in which a design right holder suffered from a failure to properly consider how colour in design representations would affect the scope of a...
The EPO has recently refused two patent applications that designated a machine as the inventor: EP18275163 and EP18275174 . In both of these cases the inventor was designated as a...