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Nicola Draper Joins the Partnership
We are pleased to announce that Nicola Draper (née Harrison) has joined the Partnership as of 14 January. Nicola has a law degree from the University of Kent and joined Williams Powell initially as a secretary in 2014. She was soon looking for further challenges so took on the roles of litigation paralegal and trade marks paralegal before deci...
Continue readingA recent European Patent Office Enlarged Board of Appeal decision G1/23 has clarified that commercially available products form part of the state of the art irrespective of whether the skilled person is able to reproducibly manufacture them. For thirty or so years, the leading authority on whether a product has been made available to the ...
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