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Discussion Document on an Appointed Person for Patents and SPCs
20 May 2013
The IP Federation has submitted a response to the UK IPO (Intellectual Property Office) discussion paper on an Appointed Person for Patents with deadline 21 May 2013. In our view, a proportionate approach would be to set up an Appointed Person route...
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17 May 2013
The IP Federation has submitted a response to the European Commission's public consultation on anti-trust rules on technology licensing which closes on 17 May 2013. This relates to the draft proposal for a revised block exemption for technology...
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24 Apr 2013
The IP Federation has written to Viscount Younger of Leckie, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Intellectual property in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. We are seeking the inclusion of the Vitorino Report on the Agenda of...
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05 Apr 2013
The IP Federation has submitted a response to the European Patent Office's online open consultation regarding divisional applications (Rule 36 EPC). We believe that the time limit imposed in current Rule 36 EPC comes at too early a time to allow the...
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04 Apr 2013
For the first time, our archive of issues of Trends and Events is being made available on the IP Federation website. Trends and Events (ISSN 2046-3049) is our annual publication in which the Federation reviews its previous twelve months’ activities....
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27 Mar 2013
The Chancellor has asked Mr Justice Briggs to take charge of a review of the practice and procedure of the Chancery Division of the High Court (both in and outside London), with a brief to make proposals for change. The review encompasses all aspects...
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11 Mar 2013
A summary of the IP Federation response to the European Commission trade secrets consultation on the protection of business and research know-how is now available. We believe that trade secrets / confidential business information are of high importance...
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08 Mar 2013
The IP Federation has made a response to the European Commission trade secrets consultation on the protection of business and research know-how. We believe that trade secrets / confidential business information are of high importance in all the following...
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28 Feb 2013
The IP Federation has made a proposal for harmonisation of claim formats to facilitate cooperation between Patent Offices and help users. Purely formal alignment of the law and rules relating to claim form between the European Patent Convention and USA...
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14 Feb 2013
The annual newsletter in which the Federation reviews its previous twelve months’ activities, Trends and Events 2012, 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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