Year: 2017
G1/15 – the death knell for poisonous divisionals
Executive summary:
The threat of poisonous divisional attacks at the European Patent Office has been creating uncertainty for some years. …
A rise in unsolicited payment requests
A growing number of our clients and associates are being contacted by third parties, asking them to pay fees for …
Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court
The unitary patent package includes a unitary EU patent and a new unified patent court for litigation
The unitary patent …
Invalid claim to priority brings down Broad Institute’s original CRISPR patent at the EPO
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) is a natural defence system used in bacteria which has been modified for …
Forresters speak at Enterprise European Network
Intellectual Property Seminar
Forresters was invited to speak at an Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) seminar on the topic of “Intellectual …
Percolate and circulate – Coffee networking
Jagvir and Greg at Forresters Birmingham office had been thinking for some time of hosting a regular coffee morning in …
The impact of BREXIT on Intellectual Property
On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. As you can imagine, the terms of the UK’s …
UK Patent Box
Beyond securing the monopoly right to use an invention, how else can a patent be a useful …
