Council Minutes, November 2020
Lee Davies
CIPA Journal
January-February 2021 / Volume 50 / Number 1-2
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CIPA elects its youngest ever President
CIPA has elected Alicia Instone, a dual-qualified patent and trade mark attorney and patent litigator, as its youngest ever President. Alicia, who is also treasurer of the UK association of the…
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Presidential review of 2020
What an extraordinary year this has been! The advent of Covid-19 has completely revolutionised the way CIPA operates. I am full of admiration for the way this has been managed by Lee Davies,…
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US Update on Arthrex
The US Supreme Court will decide if Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges are constitutional. We recently discussed the Federal Circuit’s decision in Arthrex, Inc. v Smith & Nephew, Inc….
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Report of the Life Sciences conference 2020
The annual Life Sciences Conference in 2020 (16-20 November) was held as a series of five webinars. Individual webinars attracted between 180 and 200 delegates, with around 140 delegates registering…
Up Front
News
IPO updates
Amy Williams and Iain Ross
Videoconferencing at the EPO
Kathryn Espino
UK Qualifying Exams 2020
Neil Lampert
Decisions
EPO decisions
Nick Michelmore
IPO decisions
David Pearce and Callum Docherty
Patent decisions
John Hull, Anna Hatt, Nick Bebbington, Deborah Hart, Matthew Ng and Sarah-Jane Crawford
Trade mark decisions
Katharine Stephens, Thomas Pugh, Ciara Hughes and Aaron Hetherington
Personal
Obituary: William Robert (Bob) Farwell (1938-2020)
Bob Weston, Jim Boff and Tibor Gold
Announcements
Iain Ross
Have you listened to Two IPs in a Pod?
Lucy Wharton
IP Inclusive update
Andrea Brewster OBE
IP Inclusive resources
Andrea Brewster OBE
Volunteers needed for IP clinics
Kereiss Isles
The Yellow Sheet
The Informals Committee for 2020–2021
Informals Committee
The Yellow Sheet: Jan – Feb 2021
Joel Briscoe, Tom Collier, Kathryn Taylor, Laura Cassels, Jonathan Foster, Tom Bridgwater, Lindsay Pike and Meg Murphy
Changing the focus of ‘Blue Monday’
Jonathan Foster
What is the yellow sunflower?
Jonathan Foster
Whacky Patents!
Tom Collier