by Carolyn Haywood | Mar 27, 2024 | EPO
Priority Historically, the EPO have assessed formal entitlement to priority quite strictly. In scenarios where a priority application is filed by joint applicants, all of them, or their respective successors in title, must be named on the subsequent priority claiming...
by Sean Hughes | Mar 11, 2024 | Trademarks
Background Early in 2020 (as the Covid-19 pandemic began), Thatchers launched its Cloudy Lemon Cider, which was also registered as a trade mark in the United Kingdom. The packaging of this canned beverage is shown below: Two years later, Aldi launched a similar cloudy...
by Dr Andrew Clements | Feb 14, 2024 | EPO
The EPO fee changes effective 1 April 2024 (announced here) appear to be more than the usual inflationary increase of official fees. Rather, there appears to be a restructuring which, according to the EPO, will “include reductions for small companies and even the...
by Vicky Colley | Feb 10, 2024 | News
Working in kilometres (we are, after all, European Patent Attorneys), we have managed to walk approximately 530km and are officially more than halfway to Munich! If we were to physically walk to Munich, we would have crossed the English Channel into northern France,...
by Alex Bajjon | Jan 29, 2024 | UK
Background Dr Thaler filed two UK patent applications, one for a new food/beverage container and another for a new light beacon. As part of the application process, Form 7’s were filed at the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) stating that the inventor for...
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