Council minutes
Lee Davies
CIPA Journal
July-August 2023 / Volume 51 / Number 7-8
Featured
Artificial intelligence, inventiveness and interpolationism
Dr. Noel McWilliam asks if content produced by artificial intelligence algorithms be inventive, or are consciousness and inventiveness intrinsically linked? Kanye West’s new song has created something of an internet…
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Post-grant re-examination in Singapore
Ian Mirandah and Rudina Ann Pescante take a closer look at Singapore’s post-grant re-examination process. One of the recent amendments to Singapore Patents Act and Regulations is the introduction of…
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Honorary Secretaries through the ages
There have been 87 Honorary Secretaries (‘Hon Secs’) of the Informals, and this October we will welcome the 88th. In this curiosity piece, Joel Briscoe catches up with some former…
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CIPA thanked for helping to achieve positive outcome on CPTPP accession
The UK government has formally signed the treaty to join the £12trn Pacific Rim trade bloc, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (‘CPTPP’), and on 17 July 2023…
CIPA news
Elections to Council
Lee Davies
Support for small firms and sole practitioners
Keith Loven
Other news
CPTPP – grace periods
RT Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
Government publishes transformation consultation response
IPO’s Annual Report and Accounts
SPC review
SPC Review – Part 1
Daniel Wise, Paul Kaufman
A tale of two countries – article 3(a) in France and Portugal post-Royalty Pharma
Sudarsan Rajagopal and Paul Kaufman
Combinations of active ingredients, legal provisions, and pending referrals
Fergus Tyrell
Prospects of obtaining an SPC for ‘loose’ combinations under article 3(b)
Hannah Brown and Russell Woolley
Other articles
Artificial intelligence, inventiveness and interpolationism
Noel McWilliam
Post-grant re-examination in Singapore
Ian Mirandah and Rudina Ann Pescante
Decisions
Patents – UK court cases
Beck Greener LLP
UK IPO decisions
David Pearce
EPO decisions
Bristows
Trade mark decisions
Katherine Stephens and Aaron Hetherington
IP paralegals
Your Paralegal Conference
Annemarie Parsons
European Platform of Intellectual Property Administrators
Vicky Maynard
Call for volunteers – paralegals or administrators
Call for Introductory Patent Paralegal Course tutors
Meet the volunteers: Chair of the IP Paralegals Committee
CIPA
Yellow Sheet
Editorial- Yellow Sheet,
Joel David Briscoe
Honorary Secretary update
Katherine Taylor
Honorary Secretaries through the ages
Joel David Briscoe
Requesting reasonable adjustments
Charlie Hilton-Balfe
Informals advanced lectures update
Laura Cassels
IP Ball 2023
Lindsay J.Pike
Socials update
Informals