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Hague design registration system update: reduced individual designation and renewal fees for designating the Republic of Korea
In a welcome announcement concerning the international Hague design registration system, the “individual” designation fee for designating the Republic of Korea in a Hague design registration is to be reduced by around 12%. The reduction in this official fee will take effect on 01 August 2025, and will be applicable… -
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Agritech: farm use exemptions to patent infringement in the UK
If a patent is valid and in force in the UK, one can infringe a product that it protects it if one is making it, importing it, offering or putting it on the market, using it, or keeping it for any of these purposes. Similarly one can infringe a process… -
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EPO & UPC interplay: added subject matter by intermediate generalisation
The interplay between the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is of great interest to European practitioners. In this article, we therefore examine a recent decision from the EPO Technical Boards of Appeal which explains divergence from an earlier UPC Court of Appeal decision on the… -
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Unified Patent Court: added subject matter
The European Patent Office (EPO) is renowned for its strict test for added subject matter, but will the Unified Patent Court (UPC) follow in the EPO’s footsteps, or carve its own path? We review recent UPC decisions relating to added subject matter, with early signs that the UPC is open… -
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Unified Patent Court: auxiliary claim requests
Amidst the buzz of rapidly developing patentability and infringement case law at the Unified Patent Court (UPC), you could be forgiven for overlooking the formal requirements underpinning its day-to-day operation. -
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Agritech prototyping: the risk of public disclosure
To get a patent for any new device or process it must be novel, meaning that it has not already been made available to the public. Importantly, a thing may be made available to the public even if no-one actually sees it; a book on a library shelf is clearly… -
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Chiplets: providing commercially valuable patent protection for modular products
Many products are assembled from components manufactured and distributed separately, and it is important to consider how such products are manufactured when seeking to provide commercially valuable patent protection. This article provides an example in the field of computer chip manufacture. -
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Technologies for plastics waste management: patent trends & incentives supporting innovation
The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently published its analysis highlighting the innovation trends in tackling one of the most urgent environmental challenges: plastic waste. The report “Plastics in transition - Technologies for plastics waste management”, published in April 2025, draws on nearly five decades of patent filing data and… -
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G 1/23 and enablement: are commercially available products state of the art?
In this eagerly awaited European Patent Office (EPO) decision, the Enlarged Board of Appeal concluded that a product put on the market before the date of filing of a European patent application should not be excluded from the prior art for the sole reason that its composition or internal structure… -
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Medtech: patent protection for custom medical devices
In the world of medical devices, finding a best fitting device for each patient has been a significant challenge for many years. Mass-produced devices, whether implants (such as joint sections used to treat arthritis and plates used to patch and join broken or missing bones) or removable appliances (such as…
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