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Tough love: Match.com v Muzmatch
Match offers online dating services and owns of a number of registered trade marks for MATCH.COM in classes 9, 42 and 45; and MATCH (& small heart device) in class 45. -
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Space technology IP trends: cosmonautic patent applications take off
Over the past few years, global space activity has grown massively. Between 2000 and 2013 an average of 110 spacecraft were launched per year. However, between the period 2017 to 2019 that figure grew more than four-fold to 470 spacecraft, and with SpaceX launching its Starlink mega-constellation and Blue Origin… -
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UK Government issues response to design framework call for views and survey
The UK Government has today (12 July 2022) issued its response to its call for views and survey on the UK designs system. -
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UK AI & IP consultation new copyright and database exception allowing text and data mining for any purpose
The UK Government has issued its response to a consultation recently conducted into artificial intelligence and intellectual property. The consultation, discussed in a series of previous newsletter articles, explored three areas of patent and copyright law particularly relevant to the commercial exploitation of AI. -
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New filing strategy opportunities as Germany softens prohibition of double patenting
Germany has amended its double patenting regulations allowing applicants to prepare for the impact of the unitary patent and Unified Patent Court on their current application strategies and strengthening the position of Germany as a litigation location. -
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T 288/19: assessing inventive step - the business person and the skilled person
In a recent decision by the Board of Appeal, the Board of Appeal considered the relationship between a notional business person and a person skilled in the art when assessing inventive step for “mixed” type inventions (inventions comprising both technical and non-technical features). In this article, we review the decision… -
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New sequence listing standard ST.26: practical advice for European divisional applications
Where a patent application discloses nucleotide or amino acid sequences, a formal sequence listing must be filed, to provide the sequences in a standardised format for searching. The current format for sequence listings is governed by the ST.25 standard, however from 01 July 2022 patent offices will begin using the… -
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Rule 56a EPC: correction of erroneously filed parts of a patent application
European patent law currently provides applicants with a limited window following the filing date of a patent application to file further parts of the description or drawings that were missing in the documents originally filed. Specifically, Rule 56 EPC allows applicants to file missing parts of the description of drawings… -
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EPO description amendments: the saga continues
There was a collective sigh of relief from many European Patent Office (EPO) users when, towards the end of 2021, an EPO Board of Appeal set aside a decision of the Examining Division to refuse a patent application on the basis of the description not having been adapted to bring… -
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Online demo mode access to UP forms: EPO UP & UPC preparations
On 16 June 2022 the European Patent Office (EPO) announced that its online filing system now offers access to unitary patent forms in demo mode.
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