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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 ...

Rebecca Matheson

Before GJE… As an undergraduate, I studied natural sciences, specialising in chemistry. I enjoyed my degree, but knew by my final year I was ready to leave the world of academia behind. I hadn’t p...

Chris Poll

Before GJE… As an undergraduate, I studied Physics at the University of Surrey, followed by an MSc in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronic Devices. I then went on to do a PhD in Materials Science a...