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World Trademark Review Global Leaders 2023
D Young & Co partner and solicitor Matthew Dick is highlighted as one of only 49 UK trade mark private practitioners featured in WTR's Global Leaders 2023. Now in its fifth year of publication, WTR Global Leaders "brings together the world's foremost law and corporate experts in trademark practice". -
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The UK Patent Box: a potentially different approach to patenting
A primary reason for obtaining patent protection for a particular innovation is to prevent and/or deter unwanted third parties from copying it. At least as far as the UK is concerned however, the obtaining of such patent protection can also serve a very different commercial application, in the form of… -
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Implementation timeline for the EUs Digital Services Act
The 16 November 2022 marked the entry into force of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which hopes to bring the regulations on the liability regime of online intermediary services into the twenty-first century. Even though most of the regulation will only apply from 17 February 2024 onwards, some intermediary services… -
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Are room-temperature superconductors a reality at last?
Room-temperature superconductors, or more precisely room-temperature superconductors that operate at ambient pressure, have the potential to be one of the greatest inventions of all time. Superconductors are materials which have zero resistance when working within their operational parameters. Unfortunately, to date, we have only been able to make superconductors that… -
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Patent Newsletter No.96
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Newron can't play fast and loose: UK Patents Court restricts combination SPCs
In a recent decision, the UK Patents Court considered the issue of whether supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) could be granted for a product which is a combination of two active ingredients (A+B), based on a basic patent claiming the combination A+B, and a marketing authorisation for only one of those… -
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G 1/23: assessing whether commercially available products are prior art
A referral has been made to the European Patent Office’s highest legal authority, the Enlarged Board of Appeal, to seek clarification concerning the extent to which products that are commercially available before a patent application is filed must be analysable and reproducible by the skilled person, in order to constitute… -
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Early usage of the UPC: infringement and revocation proceedings
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened its doors on 01 June 2023. Now, more than six weeks since the opening of the court, based on publically available statistics, we consider the actions that have been brought before the UPC, both in terms of infringement proceedings and revocation proceedings. -
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or ViCo oral proceedings" > EPO guidance: requesting "in-person" or ViCo oral proceedings
It is increasingly becoming important, during the written procedure leading to oral proceedings, for parties to the proceedings to provide detailed reasons for or against an in-person hearing. Merely expressing a preference for a particular format is essentially irrelevant. Further, based on developing case law, it seems that referring to… -
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Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal: EPO consultation on timeliness of appeal proceedings
The Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) are an independent body to which decisions made by the EPO can be appealed. A large backlog of appeal cases had been building up over several years creating a roadblock to the efficient conclusion of cases.
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