CIPA Journal in 2022
Jeremy Holmes
CIPA Journal
January-February 2022 / Volume 51 / Number 1-2
Featured
Restoring inadvertently-lapsed patent rights
Everything you wanted to know about patent restoration in Europe (but were afraid to ask). By Simon Keevey-Kothari. Attention to detail is of the upmost importance when it comes to…
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Consistency between claims and description at the EPO
A Board of Appeal decision may be the undoing of a new and onerous EPO Guideline, writes John Parkin (Fellow) The European Patent Office (EPO) Guidelines for Examination section F-IV,…
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Would substantive examination benefit UK registered designs?
The possibility of performing novelty searches of UK registered designs has come to the fore with the latest call for views from the IPO. By Matthew Ridley, Mark Jolly and…
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The Regulatory Big Bang
The Regulatory Big Bang – a user’s guide to the proposed changes IPReg is consulting on a review of its regulatory arrangements.[1] Responses are due by 17 March 2022. It…
Upfront
Council Minutes, November 2021
Lee Davies, Chief Executive
Council Minutes, December 2021
Lee Davies, Chief Executive
News
CIPA and the government’s Innovation Strategy
Gwilym Roberts
EPC and trade negotiations
Neil Lampert
AI and inventorship
Computer Technology Committee
Overseas news – Canada update
Lauren Palmer, Paralegal at Dehns
Overseas news – Japan update
Lauren Palmer, Paralegal at Dehns
IPO Manual of Patent Practice update
Decisions
Patent decisions – UK courts
Beck Greener
Patent decisions – UK IPO
David Pearce (Barker Brettell), Callum Docherty (J A Kemp) and and Mike Snodin (Park Grove IP).
Patent decisions – EPO
Bristows
Trade mark decisions – EUIPO
Bird & Bird LLP
Trade mark decisions – UK
Bird & Bird LLP
Articles
Consistency between claims and description at the EPO
John Parkin (Fellow)
Earthshot Prize 2022
Amy Williams, Communications Officer
Open the (patent) box and take the money
David Gillies
Restoring inadvertently-lapsed patent rights
Simon Keevey-Kothari
Would substantive examination benefit UK registered designs?
Matthew Ridley, Mark Jolly and Regan Gourley
US update: Fintiv
Tim McAnulty
Personal
IP Inclusive update
Andrea Brewster OBE
Obituary: Dr Lisa Brown
Mary Spears
Announcements
Iain Ross
Patent Attorneys Golfing Society
Chris P Mercer, Hon. Sec. PAGS
Regulatory update - online version only
The Regulatory Big Bang
David Musker (Fellow)