IP updates EPO Oral Proceedings Before the Opposition Division to be Held by Videoconference Unless Serious Reasons to Attend in Person The EPO has announced this week that it intends to extend its pilot project for oral proceedings by videoconference before the Opposition Division until 15 September 2021.
IP updates By Design: Design Rights and Brexit As of the end of the Brexit transition period (currently 31 December 2020), EU-wide IP rights will no longer apply in the UK. Here, we explore how the upcoming changes in law will affect your registered and unregistered design rights.
IP updates By Design: The New Repair Clause in German Design Law – A Significant Change On September 10th the long-awaited “Act for Strengthening Competition” was passed by the German Government.
IP updates EUIPO Becomes Accessing Office for WIPO DAS The EUIPO has recently announced that, with effect from 12 September, it will become an accessing office under the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS). This follows the news in July that the EUIPO would begin depositing certified copies of design applications with the WIPO DAS.
IP updates Claim One – #04 Brexit Overview Amanda Mallon and Michael Conway, Partners in HLK’s Trade Mark team, join Joanna Deas in the latest video in our ‘Claim One’ series. Discussion focuses on Brexit, with Michael and Amanda sharing what HLK are doing to ensure a seamless service once the Brexit transition period ends.
IP updates Mousetrap: Insufficiency Traps Two ‘Ground Breaking’ Patents in Regeneron V Kymab Angus Milne and Brian Whitehead wrote an article for the Bio-Science Law Review, Volume 17 Issue 5.
IP updates Unwired Planet v Huawei – Supreme Court Rules on Global FRAND Licensing Powers of UK Courts Earlier this week the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Unwired Planet v Huawei, one of the most important standards related patent cases handled by the UK courts in recent years.
IP updates SEP’s FRAND, and Unwired Planet – The UK Courts Rule Supreme In a widely anticipated judgement, in Unwired Planet v Huawei, the U.K.’s Supreme Court has today rejected appeals by Huawei and ZTE, and affirmed the English first instance and Court of Appeal decisions that UK courts have jurisdiction to settle global FRAND disputes, settle global royalty rates and grant UK injunctions.
IP updates For the Chocolate Junkies and Trade Mark Lovers There’s no accounting for taste. However, a long-running battle about the shape of chocolate came to an end a few weeks ago in July 2020. Germany’s highest court, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), ruled on the trade mark dispute between Ritter Sport and Milka.
