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Patent landscaping: patent search and analysis tools
The already vast quantity of patent-related data increases with every new patent application filed. These data are a rich source of technological information, and many search tools, both free and subscription-based, exist to aid navigation and exploration. Nevertheless, the sheer volume of patents and applications worldwide can make meaningful searching… -
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EPO approach to handwritten amendments
The European Patent Office (EPO) has not accepted hand-written amendments since 01 January 2014. Replacement patent application documents such as amended claims and description pages have instead had to be filed in typed-up form. -
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Nagoya Protocol: European regulation now in force
The EU Regulation setting out compliance measures for users of genetic resources in the EU under the Nagoya Protocol, came into effect on 12 October 2014. -
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Member states make progress with the unitary patent
According to a publication on the website of the European Patent Office (www.epo.org), significant progress has recently been made towards the unitary patent. -
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G 1/15: EPO allows stay of proceedings
As some readers may know, questions relating to partial priority and to poisonous divisional applications have been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) as case G 1/15. -
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SPC notification rules
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJ) has now decided on the issue of how to calculate the correct expiry date of a supplementary protection certificate (SPC). SPCs are granted in the European Union (EU) for medicinal and plant protection products which require a marketing authorisation by a… -
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IP survey results - UK businesses in the IP spotlight
For a number of years now we have been working in collaboration with the magazines New Electronics and Eureka to increase the level of understanding of what IP is and how it can be valuable to businesses. In support of this initiative we have been running IP surveys inviting the… -
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Poisonous divisionals (G1/15)
In our April 2015 edition of this newsletter we discussed the concept of multiple priorities and how, based on a strict interpretation of comments made in decision G2/98 concerning priority, the situation has arisen whereby a patent can be found invalid with respect to the disclosure of its own priority… -
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Second medical use claims and skinny labels
We have previously reported several decisions of the UK Patents Court and Court of Appeal in relation to Warner-Lambert's action against Actavis (and others), concerning whether Warner-Lambert's second medical use patent for pregabalin was infringed by Actavis selling the drug with a 'skinny label' not referring to the patented medical… -
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Toxic priorities at the Enlarged Board of Appeal
Further to our article in our April 2015 patent newsletter (see link - right) concerning multiple priorities (sometimes known as partial or split priorities), the decision of the Technical Board of Appeal in case T 557/13 has recently been published.
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