This part of the site is up-to-date from 2004; relevant position papers prior to then are obtainable from the Secretariat.
Letter of January 2006 to the company law reform team at the DTI during passage of Companies Bill. TMPDF paper of May 05 on UK Government Consultation Response to UKPO informal consultation made November 2005 on the modernisation and consolidation of Patent Rules. 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. Letter of December 2005 to DCA re: proposals for reorganisation of courts into single court; need for specialist IP judges. Response to DCA consultation of November 2005 on Rome II - the revised draft of EC Regulation on the law appreciable to non-contractual obligations (COM 2003/0427; council document 1623/04). Letter to UKPO November 2005 re: pre-consultation on proposed abolition of examination of trade marks on relative grounds. Letter to UKPO November 2005 re: PCT reform: alternative proposals for filing patent applications internationally. October 2005 response to Commission proposal for a criminal sanctions directive and framework decision. Response of March 2003 to Chatham House survey on disclosure of genetic origin in patent applications.
UK Business names: January 2006
Document No: PP 1/06
Posted: 01 January 2007
UK IP Consultation in UK: May 2006
Document No: PP 53/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
UK Patent Rules modernisation: October 2005
Document No: PP 51/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
Hague convention: December 2005
Document No: PP 48/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
UK litigation system: Judges: December 2005
Document No: PP 47/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
Rome II: November 2005
Document No: PP 46/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
UK trade marks: examination on relative grounds: November 2005
Document No: PP 43/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
PCT alternatives: November 2005
Document No: PP 42/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
Criminal sanctions directive; draft: October 2005
Document No: PP 41/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
Chatham House survey: August 2005
Document No: PP 30/05
Posted: 01 January 2007
Improving the IP framework to meet the needs of innovative industry
Amicus Curiae Brief on Enlarged Board of Appeal case G 1/23
Text and data mining (TDM) in the UK
IPO transformation programme: second consultation – IP Federation response
Online consultation on the proposed amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal
European Commission consultation on Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER)
Transformation consultation – Potential legislative changes for IPO digital transformation – IP Federation response
Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill – IP Federation response
Reviewing the designs framework – Call for views – IP Federation response
Amicus Curiae Brief on Enlarged Board of Appeal case G 1/21
Court of Justice case C-44/21 (Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG v HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. et al.)
Consultation on EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines
Review of EU Design Legislation – Inception Impact Assessment
IP Federation position statement on the Unified Patent Court
Artificial intelligence and intellectual property – call for views
The UK needs to adopt a broader text and data mining (TDM) exception to copyright infringement
