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This article was originally commissioned and published in ECTA Bulletin, March 2025 It is hard to believe that it has…

Applications for registered EU designs can be filed at the EUIPO and offer a convenient, cost-effective way of obtaining design…

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decision on patent infringement by equivalence in Plant-e Knowledge B.V. &…

In a declaration dated March 2024, the government of Jersey has stated that EUTMs no longer cover Jersey, and that…

With the Unified Patent Court (UPC) having opened its doors on 1 June 2023, heralding a new era for patent…

The current go-live date for the Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is 1 June 2023. For…

Many European patent applications are prosecuted through to grant where through determined and persuasive argument, luck, or an Examiner oversight,…

The European Patent Office (EPO) and participating European Union countries are in the final stages of establishing the Unitary Patent…

In the third article in our series on design protection Carrie Johnson, patent attorney and partner, compares and contrasts the…