Introduction Trade marks may be protected by registration at national or regional (such as at the EU) trade mark offices. Registered trade marks provide the holder the right to exclude others from using the same or a similar trade marks for the same or similar...
Reassuringly, the draft Withdrawal Agreement explicitly addresses Intellectual Property and pleasingly confirms that the European Union is prepared to agree to continuous protection in the UK, by way of a corresponding UK right, for owners of an EU trade mark or a...
Extending the patent term for such high value patented products can be particularly significant for rights holders even when the additional term is mere days. A supplementary protection certificate is intended to partially compensate a patent holder for the patent...
Europe The Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 02/08 clarified that second medical use claims to new and inventive dosage regimes are patentable, even where the substance or composition, and the disease to be treated, are the same as in the prior art. Nevertheless, the...
With respect to intellectual property, one of the important proposals in the draft Withdrawal Agreement was the creation of “parallel” UK rights, without the need for re-examination, for owners of EU trade marks or registered Community designs,...
At the beginning of 2017 the Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court thought that it would be likely that the systems of the UPC would begin provisional operation before summer 2017 in advance of the UPC agreement coming into force later that year. It...
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