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Jonathan is a British and European Patent Attorney. He studied Cybernetics with Computer Science at Reading University. He is also a Chartered IT Professional and is a member of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. He is active in promoting IP awareness in IT companies and spends much of his time dealing with both IP for IT and technical IT issues.
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The EU committee on Legal Affairs optimistically delclares "Done Deal on the EU Patent!". We're not there yet but we do appear to be moving forward after more than 30 years negotiation.
In a press release issued 2 December 2012, the EU Parliament's rapporteurs declared that a political agreement had been reached on the proposals for an EU un ...
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Can copyright cover software functionality in Europe? EU Advocate General thinks not.
The boundary between types of Intellectual Property is not always clear. Occasionally, different Intellectual Property types may provide overlapping protection. For example, a widget may be protectable by both patents and registered designs.
One argum ...
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Katherine is a British and European Patent Attorney. She obtained a BSc in Molecular Biology with French from the University of Manchester. Katherine works on, amongst other things, the patenting of nucleic acid arrays and their use in hybridisation assays, methods of oligonucleotide synthesis, diagnostic tests and treatments for several important diseases, and medical devices.
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Supreme Court decides that plausible use of a gene sequence meets UK patent law crietria.
The Court delivered its judgement in Eli Lilly v. Human Genome Sciences on gene sequence patenting on 2 November 2011 and has reversed the decisions of the lower courts regarding industrial applicability of a gene sequence. The decision appears to ...
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Ian Tollett has not set their biography yet
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Planning to trade in China? If so, register your mark early to beat Trade Mark Squatters.
If you are trading, planning to trade in, or exporting to China, have you registered your trade mark there yet? If not, be warned: bad faith applicants are filing Chinese applications for the trade marks of established overseas companies and then blackm ...
Feb 06
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Kevin Bartle has not set their biography yet
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The UKIPO has launched an online document inspection service for its recent patent files.
The service, called Ipsum, allows anyone to view documents sent by the UKIPO (such as search reports and examination reports), as well as documents received by the UKIPO (such as the responses filed to examination reports).
Some documents are not available o ...
Oct 14
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David is a European Patent Attorney. David read Physics at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Masters degree specialising in areas including condensed matter physics and theoretical physics. David works in a variety of technical areas, including mechanical, semiconductor and optical devices.
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A disclaimer is an exclusion, in negative terms, of subject matter from the scope of a claim. Disclaimers are generally used to carve out from the claim scope something that is co-incidentally covered by prior art but which is not relevant to overall novelty/inventive step of an invention. In its decision of G2/10, the Enlarged Board of ...
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