IP News in general
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World Intellectual Property Day Thursday 26 April 2007 | 20th April, 2007
To mark this important day, the brainchild of World Intellectual Property Office WIPO, the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) is hosting an event at the British Library Business and IP Centre. It will be opened by Ian Fletcher, the new Chief...more...
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Malta to join EPC and PCT | 5th January, 2007
On 1 March 2007, Malta will become a full member of the European Patent Organisation. more...
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Inventive Step - The Problem-Solution Approach | 9th December, 2006
The Problem-Solution Approach to determining the inventive step, as used by the European Patent Office. more...
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Way open for reduction in European patent costs | 2nd October, 2006
Currently, at the grant stage of a European patent application, translations of the full specification have to be filed in most European Patent Convention contracting states. more...
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Fee Payments in Canada | 20th March, 2006
Most university and small organisation clients will be aware that they may be entitled to pay Canadian official patent and application fees at a reduced rate compared to non-University applicants which have more than 50 employees. A recent Canadian cour...more...
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The Patent Office Re-branded | 9th March, 2006
The U.K.'s Patent Office has now announced that it is to change its name to the UK Intellectual Property Office. more...
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European Patent Litigation Agreement Gets Judges' Approval | 8th November, 2005
In an extraordinary show of European judicial unity, senior IP judges from several EU countries have banded together to promote a legislative initiative aimed at providing a single European patents court to hear patent cases. more...
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Patent Infringement by Trans-National Distributed Systems: A Similar Trans-Atlantic Approach? | 26th October, 2005
The prospect of patent infringement by the use of “trans-national distributed systems”, by which we mean a system wherein elements of the claimed system can be located within different countries without the operation of the system being affe...more...
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Community Trade Mark Office Reduces Official Fees | 22nd October, 2005
There has been a substantial reduction in many official fees payable to the Community Trade Marks Office. more...
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Bridges smashed between USPTO and EPO in landmark business method decision - Oligopoly/Lundgren | 20th October, 2005
In a significant affirmation of the liberal attitudes in the US to the question of what should be patentable, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in the US Patent and Trademark Office has decided that there is no test for whether an inven...more...
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European Community Trade Mark - Amendments to Regulations | 21st September, 2005
With effect from the 25th July 2005, various changes have been made to certain of the Implementing Regulations governing the European Community Trade Mark system. more...
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Extended European Search Report | 29th June, 2005
On 1 July, new rule 44a EPC comes into effect. According to that rule, the search examiner will send an opinion on patentability with the European Search Report, the whole to be known as an EESR (Extended European Search Report). more...
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Oncomouse Patent Upheld in the EPO | 31st March, 2005
The Oncomouse patent has finally been upheld in amended form in the European Patent Office by the Board of Appeal. more...
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EPO practice on business methods laid bare | 28th February, 2005
Recently we were very pleased to welcome to our offices Yannis Skulikaris, head of one of the nine EPO Examination Directorates handling computer related inventions, to present to attorneys and clients on the latest developments on EPO practice in this ar...more...
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Iceland and Lithuania become EPC-contracting states. | 18th November, 2004
From 1st November and 1st December 2004 it will be possible to designate Iceland and Lithuania, respectively, in European patent applications. more...
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