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News on plausibility at the EPO: G2/21 Oral Proceedings

Oral Proceedings for G2/21 were held on 24 November 2022 before the Enlarged Board of Appeal to discuss plausibility and the admissibility of post-published evidence in proceedings before the EPO.

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News on plausibility at the EPO: G 2/21 preliminary opinion released

The EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has issued a preliminary, non-binding, opinion on the pending G 2/21 referral. In brief: G 2/21 (introduced in our previous articles here and here) asks how the ...

AI musings

Response to the second AI consultation: status quo x2 and news for TDM

Last week, the UK government published its response to the second consultation on AI and IP.

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Law update on sentencing guidelines for trade mark infringement

The Sentencing Council have finally provided clear guidance for both magistrates and Crown Courts, this is excellent news for rights holders.

Case law

Caterpillar or copy-cat? – a look at copycatting in the food and drink sector

With news that an out of court settlement has been reached between Marks & Spencer (M&S) and Aldi in the widely publicised dispute over caterpillar shaped cakes, we take a deeper look at copycatting i...

AI musings

Artificial Inventors again

While there has been a lull in news stories about DABUS and the Artificial Inventor project, the appeal hearing at the Federal Court of Australia last month notwithstanding the debate has continued on...

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Big news, yet no news: UK Government retains status quo for exhaustion of IP rights – at least for now…

Ever since the Government’s consultation on the exhaustion of IP rights ended in August 2021, businesses which trade between the UK and EU have been waiting for further developments to this conundrum.

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The UPC: the latest news and a quick refresher

17 SEP 2021: Germany has recently moved forward on steps to bring the “Agreement on a Unified Patent Court” (UPC Agreement) into force. An ambitious time plan has laid out for the UPC.

Analysis

Bottoms up – what’s brewing in the beer industry?

A recent report published the news that the Netherlands was the largest beer exporter in the EU in 2020. Not only for your regular bottle of beer, but also in the area of non-alcoholic beers. Besides ...

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