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 would incur some cost for the UK public purse at least

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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 to the needs of business.

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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 mark attorney litigators to facilitate the grant of

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The IP Federation has issued a statement in support of the “principles paper” prepared by a sub-group of the European Patent Reform Consultation Group constituted by the IPO, urging that the text of the agreement on a Unified Patent Court and draft Statute requires amendment.  
 
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The IP Federation has made a plea for renewed efforts to find common ground for international agreement on a number of substantive aspects of patent law, including:

• the prior art to be considered in relation to novelty,
• the principle that the patent on a given

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