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As reported here, a referral has been made to the Enlarged Board of Appeal concerning the legality of holding oral proceedings by video conference without the consent of the parties.

The UK Government has published a White Paper setting out its proposals for the future relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU).

The UK Supreme Court has upheld the landmark judgement by Birss J in 2017 that an English court can grant an injunction to restrain infringement of declared standard essential UK patents, ...

The EPO announced today that it will be testing Zoom as a platform for "oral proceedings involving multiple opponents and/or requiring simultaneous interpretation".

Last week the European Union (EU) gave its approval for the UK to delay its exit from the EU beyond 29 March 2019, without requiring the UK Government to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit

Parameters are generally used in patent claims to define subject matter which cannot be expressed in terms of structural features. They can be the most appropriate way to ensure that a claim scope...

The EPO has announced a cooperation with European Committee of Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC)

The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced plans to relocate the Boards of Appeal from Haar (a suburb of Munich) back to the city centre area of Munich, where the rest of the EPO is based.

The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal has issued a decision today concerning the patent eligibility of technical simulations.

As previously reported, the UK Court of Appeal rejected an attempt to name a computer system (DABUS) as an inventor on a UK patent application.

The EU "unitary patent" took a step closer to being established on 2 December when the upper House of the Austrian parliament (the Federal Council) approved the Protocol for Provisional Application...

The government of the Russian Federation has adopted on 7 March 2022 a decree which provides that no compensation is payable when a patent, utility model or industrial design is subjected to a compulsory license...

On 29 April 2021, legislation giving powers to the UK Government to scrutinise transactions on grounds of national security (the UK National Security and Investment Act, "NSIA") was enacted into UK law.

The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that the official fees charged for European patent applications will be increasing from 1 April 2022.

The Supreme Court issued its judgment in Icos v Actavis yesterday 27 March, considering the issue of inventive step.

Following an open consultation calling for views on the impact of AI on IP rights, the UKIPO has now issued the results of the consultation together with the government's response in some key areas.

The EPO has announced that it is once again extending the use of video conference for opposition division oral proceedings.

The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has joined the Australia-Canada-Singapore-Switzerland (ACSS) Consortium, with effect from 1 January 2021.