12May
Informals Lecture

Monday 12 May

Secure Patents; Information for the insecure

When and where

Date and time

Start: Monday 12 May 2025, 05:30 PM

End: Monday 12 May 2025, 06:30 PM

Location

CIPA, Viaro House, 20-23 Holborn, London, EC1N 2JD

Event Overview

The 2025 Informals Foundation Lecture series continues with Secure Patents; Information for the insecure on Monday 12 May 2025 at 05:30 pm given by Mike Leaning (IPO). This lecture will be conducted in person.

A brief introduction to Section 22 of the Patents Act – what it is, how it works and what it means for you – and a few other eclectic warfare-related bits of Law that may impact on IP rights and IP professionals.

Recordings of the lectures will appear on the CIPA website at https://www.cipa.org.uk/lecture-archive

Audience

Students

Speakers

Mike Leaning, IPO

Mike Leaning, IPO

Having obtained geology-related BSc and MSc qualifications, Mike discovered that there wasn’t much future in licking rocks for a living and after a series of unlikely coincidences ended up at the Intellectual Property Office as a Patent Examiner.

After more than over two decades as an examiner Mike has worked on a variety of subject matter. These days he splits his time between working on open cases and cases subject to S22 directions.

Civil Service logic dictates that as a former geologist, Mike’s open subject matter relates to vaping technology and e-cigarettes.

Whilst Mike’s open work concerns vaping devices for people, his S22 work on the other hand concerns devices for vaporising people.

To this end, Mike’s work is mainly concerned with mechanical subject matter (things that go ‘Boom!’ and things that keep fragile fleshy things safe from things that go ‘Boom!’).

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