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Revocation

One of the advantages of registering designs in the UK and Europe is that they are not substantively examined.  This means it’s relatively inexpensive and quick to obtain a registration.  Howe...

Revocation

At GJE, we have experience in challenging and defending the validity of UK patents and patent revocation proceedings at the highest level. Our team of experts has acted for our clients in the Chancery...

The (Little-Known) Route to Patent Revocation

All too frequently, a business discovers a competitor’s patent lurking in the wings, standing in the way of a new project or commercial product.  However a very small percentage of those businesses...

UPC Litigation

The Unitary Patent (UP) together with the Unified Patent Court (UPC) represent the biggest shake up of the European patent system for more than 40 years.  The new system of enforcing and invalida...

Biomedical Engineering: The Patent Landscape

Biomedical engineering is a broad field, encompassing most devices and apparatuses that interact with the human body for medical purposes in some way. This report aims to identify the major filers of ...

Balancing Cost, Risk and Coverage With Unitary Patents: A Biomedical Engineering Case Study

Until recently there has been no way to obtain a single patent right covering several European countries.  However, the framework surrounding patent protection in Europe is changing.  The ne...

The Unified Patent Court

What is the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and when will it open? The UPC will be a forum for central litigation of a unitary patent. It will also have jurisdiction over European patents that are not opte...

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...

Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent

Streamline infringement and validity disputes across different EU Member States On 20 July 2020, the UK officially withdrew from the proposed Unified Patent Court (UPC) system. In a parliamentary writ...

Unified Patent Court & Unitary Patent

The European patent system is going through one of its biggest changes since the introduction of a European patent in the 1970s. The Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be introduc...