Council Minutes, January 2024
Lee Davies
CIPA Journal
March 2024 / Volume 53 / Number 3
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Life after G2/21: Plus ça change, plus c’est la méme chose?
This article is based upon a presentation given at the CIPA Life Sciences conference in November 2023 and has been updated to take account of more recent EPO decisions relating…
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UPC: How do opposition rates impact opt-outs?
Nicholas Fox (Fellow) and Christopher Ashcroft (Student) review the correlation between European Patent Office opposition rates and opt-out rates in the Unified Patent Court. By default, European patents granted by…
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Review of patent cases in 2023 – Part 1
By the Bristows team – Dominic Adair, Katie Cambrook, Brian Cordery, Amy Cullen, Chloe Dickson, Charlie French, Matthew Hunt, Nicholas Round, Jonathan Ross and Lucy Sewter. Introduction For patent practitioners…
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ADAPT: Connecting DEI at industry level
A recent Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg) diversity survey[1] revealed that while figures around social mobility in the IP profession in the UK were encouraging – 43% of the respondents…
Up front – CIPA news
Council Minutes, February 2024
Lee Davies
CIPA website attack – update for all members
Lee Davies
Seventh Presidents’ Meeting
Emily Jones
CIPA recognised for positive outcome on CPTPP accession
Neil Lampert
CIPA meets EPO VP Steve Rowan
Emily Jones
Other news
Changes to PCT fees
IPO Update
Financial support for SMEs
EUIPO: fraudulent emails
EUIPO update
Phishing attacks – please be vigilant
IPO update
Articles
NatWest launches IP-backed lending for high-growth SMEs
Neil Lampert
Review of patent cases in 2023 – Part 1
Bristows
Life after G2/21: Plus ça change, plus c’est la méme chose?
Lawrence King and Amanda Simons
Decisions
Patents – UK court cases
Beck Greener LLP
Patents – UK IPO decisions
David Pearce
Patents – EPO decisions
Bristows
Unified Patent Court decisions and orders
EIP
Trade mark decisions
Bird & Bird LLP
Personal
Transitional translations at the UPC
Charlotte Couchman, Paul Clarke and Jim Boff
Obituary: Nicola Baker-Munton
Abigail Woolhouse
Obituary: David Lewis OBE
Michael Jewess
Obituary: Steven Ward
Jozsef Gaal
Obituary: Di Burridge
Mick Ralph
Patent Agents Golfing Society
Two IP’s in a pod: Season 9
IP Inclusive update
Andrea Brewster
ADAPT: Connecting DEI at industry level
Farnaz Massoumian and Jeg Korukottu
Announcements
Yellow Sheet
Editorial
Epseeta Chowdhury
Honorary Secretary update
Ashley Tambe
Drunken networking
Jack Phillip Brown
CAFC decision: new drug application filers
Jaskiranjit Kang
Informals Buddy Scheme
Debora Dorn