Latest Activities
Revision of the rules for the assessment of licensing agreements for the transfer of technology
03 Feb 2012
The IP Federation has submitted a response to the European Commission's public consultation for the revision of the current framework for the assessment of technology transfer agreements, including the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation...
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30 Jan 2012
The IP Federation has submitted views in favour of the proposal to modify the International Search and Preliminary Examination Guidelines in order to provide further guidance to International Authorities on the inclusion of observations on clarity...
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23 Jan 2012
The annual newsletter in which the Federation reviews its previous twelve months’ activities, Trends and Events 2011, has now been published. It provides an overview of those IP issues which engaged industry during that period and tries to look...
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23 Jan 2012
The IP Federation has put forward views in favour of a properly designed and implemented Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court to the European Scrutiny Committee. On the other hand, our main concerns are: Articles 6–8 (defining the rights...
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06 Jan 2012
The IP Federation has issued a statement in support of the WIPO pilot projects on collaborative search and examination. The Federation is fully in support of the projects and looks forward to the completion of the second pilot project. The paper...
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02 Dec 2011
The IP Federation is concerned that the draft Regulation and draft Agreement will precipitate a patent system in Europe which is worse than we have today. Thus we have made a plea for the UK not to initial, agree to or sign anything in which our concerns...
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25 Nov 2011
The IP Federation has made a plea for MEPs to push for the deletion of the infringement provisions in Articles 6–8 from the Unitary Patent Regulation, and to give full consideration is given to other significant issues to ensure we achieve a better...
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17 Nov 2011
The IP Federation has written to Baroness Wilcox, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills, requesting that the Central Division of the new Court should be located in London. We realise that hosting the court in London...
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11 Nov 2011
The IP Federation has responded to the Intellectual Property Office’s call for evidence in relation to the design sector closing on 11 November 2011, aiming to gain a better understanding of whether the design rights system in the UK is geared...
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17 Oct 2011
The IP Federation has responded to the IPReg consultation on Litigation Rights for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys with deadline 17 October 2011. We support IPReg in its proposals to issue a revised qualification regime for patent attorney and trade...
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