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UK Withdraws Ratification of UPCA

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...

EPO COVID-19 Provisions

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...

UPC – Germany Looking to Get Back on Track

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...

UPC – For EU, but not for us.

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...

A Material Difference in Registered Designs

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...

EPO Refuses Patent Application Naming an “AI Inventor”

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...

UK Becomes Even More Attractive for First Filings in Computing and Telecomms

Following an announcement earlier in the year that the UK IPO will be outsourcing searches to the EPO (see Ross’ article here), the UK IPO have expanded this to the computing and telecommunications ...

UKIPO Publishes Research into AI Patent Filings

It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one to hear that investment in Artificial Intelligence has risen sharply over the last few years.  This is supported by a recent report published by the UK...

Arnie Clarke and Peter Finnie Recognised by Who’s Who Legal

Arnie Clarke and Peter Finnie have been recognised by Who’s Who Legal in the The Patents Agent & Attorneys 2019: Analysis. The report lists the world-leading patent ...

The President of the EPO Turns up the Heat on the Boards of Appeal in the Debate Over Patentability of Products of Essentially Biological Processes

Following on from my previous report on the EPO Administrative Council’s new Rule 28(2) explicitly excluding products of “essentially biological processes” from patentability, this story has tak...