IP Federation’s position in relation to the potential inclusion of intellectual property rights within the scope of the proposed Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

Letter to Tim Moss CBE and Sean Dennehey at the UK Intellectual Property Office recommending that intellectual property should be outside the scope of the proposed draft Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

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 invention should be awarded to the first inventor to file, and
• a grace period

Response to DCA consultation of October 2005 made Dec 2005 re: the Draft Convention on Exclusive Choice of Courts Agreements (Hague) - re: issue of ratification.

Response to DCA consultation of Oct 2004 on the Draft Convention on Exclusive Choice of Courts Agreements (Hague), made January 2005.