After years of uncertainty in the timeline of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), it has just been announced that Germany will ratify
The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently ruled that patients in a clinical trial were not members of the public such that
The way of determining the compliance period of a UK divisional application is changing on 1 May 2023. From 1 May 2023
The EPO has recently issued a decision confirming that oral proceedings before examining divisions, the Legal Division, the Receiving Section and now,
As of 1 September 2022, the EPO are providing a new, free of charge, service that involves carrying out a top-up search
Plausibility: Insights from the G 2/21 preliminary opinion The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) referral G 2/21 will hopefully clarify the
The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) has reported that the Administrative Council of the EPO passed a package of rules, on
Registered design protection is an effective way of protecting a product’s market share from similar looking competing products and obtaining registered designs can significantly improve a company’s position in case a dispute arises.
The fading of summer is often one of those times to finish off all of those tricky projects that have built up.
It has been almost exactly five years since the legendary sprinter Usain Bolt last took to the track: in fact, I was