Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Decisions, decisions, decisions.....

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The UK government has many decisions ahead of it including the BIG one, of when (or whether) to trigger Article 50: and a small one, of whe...
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Saturday, 17 September 2016

Should the UK ratify UPC (yes): can it continue post-Brexit (yes)

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We are in a critical position concerning the unified patent court and unitary patent. Netherlands has deposited its instrument of ratif...
Thursday, 1 September 2016

European Patent Grants - update

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In a previous post  I commented on the high number of patent grants at the EPO during the first 6 months of 2016. Patent grant numbers at ...
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Saturday, 25 June 2016

Brexit and IP

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In case you have not noticed, there has been a referendum in the UK voting to leave the EU. This only has effect once an Article 50 TFEU n...
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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

How high will the ball bounce?

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The hockey stick graph is a familiar issue in climatology. A sudden step change in a measured variable indicating something happening in the...
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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

But is it appealing?

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A proposal to increase the appeal fees at the EPO has received recent comment on  IPKat . It is interesting to see the effect the last big...
Sunday, 13 March 2016

Best year ever, concentration, and the future

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It is time for EPO statistics to come out again, and for once (even without PR spin and puff) they include the slightest indication that bad...