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EBA Referral: Can a Priority Claim Be Country-Dependent for a PCT Application?

The right to priority is often a topic of contention at the European Patent Office (EPO), and it is once more in the spotlight with a referral to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA). We know th...

Intellectual Property – If a Tree Falls in a Forest and No One Is Around To Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?

The title of this piece quotes an interesting philosophical question.  In the world of patents, this question is somewhat analogous to the question “to what extent does prior use of an inventio...

Securing Intellectual Property Protection for Software | In Association with Geovation | 03.02.22

Thursday 3rd February 2022, 2pm – 3pm What will the talk cover? Many companies are now platform based or use software to drive their processes and customer interaction. How that software can be prot...

Unified Patent Court Brought to Life

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has started running due to Austria completing the ratifications of the UPC Agreement (UPCA) and Protocol on the Provisional Application of the UPC Agreement (PPA). This ...

The Future of Biomedical Engineering – An Industry Perspective | 13.01.22

Thursday 13 January 2022, 4:00 PM (London UK – BST) 2 hours This event will be free for BioMedEng members, but non-members will be charged a £30 attendance fee (equivalent to an annual BioMedEng me...

Rapid Grant at the EPO

Introduction Obtaining a granted patent anywhere in the world can be a lengthy process, and the European Patent Office (EPO) is no exception, sometimes taking several years to grant meaningful, wielda...

EPO Pauses All Proceedings That Depend on   G 2/21, the Referral on Post-Published Evidence and Plausibility

A referral has been made to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA), the EPO’s highest authority, in relation to whether “post-filed” (or “post-published”) evidence may continue to support the pa...

Opposition Practice at the EPO – Advice for Opponents

The EPO (European Patent Office) opposition process offers third parties the opportunity to attack the validity of a European patent after grant. The opposition process is a centralised system, offeri...

Alex Kelly

Before GJE… I was studying for a Master’s in Chemistry at Oxford University; it was in my final year that I realised while I love learning about chemistry I didn’t want to pursue research or aca...

Philippa Makepeace

Before GJE… I decided I wanted to pursue a career as a patent attorney just before my penultimate year of studying chemistry at university. After shadowing an attorney and obtaining work experience ...