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Patent Box Strategies to Accelerate UK Granted Patent
The Patent Box places a potentially extremely high financial value on a granted UK patent (see notes 1 & 2 below), whereas a pending patent application has no value under the scheme. The race for getting granted UK patents is therefore now on. For UK manufacturing companies, profits arising from… -
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European design rights and the Apple v Samsung dispute
Following on from an article we published in the February edition of this newsletter (in which we discussed national validation strategies for European patents), this article will consider how Registered Community Designs (RCDs) may be used as an additional method of rights protection. This is to be illustrated using the… -
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USPTO Competition - Patents for Humanity
In addition to awarding patents, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will soon be awarding prizes. -
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SPCs for combination products - common sense prevails?
Hot on the heels of the Medeva and related decisions late in 2011, the CJEU has issued its latest order on SPCs for combination pharmaceutical products. The order was issued remarkably quickly, within eight months of its referral by the UK Patents Court, and will be welcomed by innovator pharmaceutical… -
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Patenting Plant Innovations at the EPO
In Europe, ‘plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals’ are excluded from patentability. The Enlarged Board of Appeal decision G1/98 attempted to clarify the distinction between a ‘plant’ and a ‘plant variety’. Plants which are not plant varieties have to date been… -
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Referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal for T445/08
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Validation of European Patents - Selection Strategies
The year 2011 saw a number of disputes between companies in the electronics sector. Of these, the highest profile dispute was between Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc. In this first part of a two part article, we will discuss how different courts within Europe were effectively utilised by… -
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UKIPO Green Channel - Fast-Track Filing for Green Tech
At the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) it can typically take two to three years after filing for the average mechanical patent application to be granted. In the biotechnology field the corresponding time to grant can often be much longer. Having a granted patent can often be crucial in… -
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Prioritised Examination at the USPTO
In our August 2010 newsletter, we described the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) plans to introduce a three-track procedure for patent examination. The plans aimed to give applicants greater control over the speed and timing of the examination of their patent applications. The Track 1 procedure, named Prioritised… -
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The Patent Box - What it Means and How it Works
The Patent Box is an opt-in scheme for obtaining a reduced rate of corporation tax on certain IP-derived profits in the UK. The scheme is scheduled to start in April 2013 and is an area of tax law that any IP-active company will want to watch.
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