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The European Patent Office (EPO) has issued the latest decision from its highest authority, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA)….

David Pearce was promoted to the role of Associate on 2 July 2012. David is based in our head office in Birmingham….

At the Brussels summit on 29 June 2012, the national leaders of the EU countries reached a compromise deal regarding…

The long awaited decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the IP TRANSLATOR case has…

A potentially very valuable corporation tax reduction mechanism is being finalised by the UK government.  This is called the “Patent…

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) recently considered an opposition by Nestlé to Cadbury’s UK trade mark application which…

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has provided clarification regarding supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) and whether it…

The UK government is continuing to press ahead with its proposed “patent box” tax regime, under which businesses paying corporation…

The UK Court of Appeal has considered the issue of how to determine when a product creates the same overall…

Despite the difficult economic times the European Patent Office (EPO) received a record number of new patent filings in 2011….

A number of Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) programmes exist between national patent offices to allow patent applications to be granted…

The Patents County Court (PCC) is designed as a low-cost forum for the settlement of intellectual property disputes in England…