Yearly Archives: 2017

A Report On The General Court’s Decision in Case T16/16

It seems trite to state that the representation of a registered design must enable third parties to determine with certainty the nature of the protected design.   However this was exactly the issue debated by the Applicant and the EUIPO before the General...

It has been 40 years in coming but as early as 1 December this year the new Unitary Patent system will come into force.  Essentially it will provide a single patent right across 25 European jurisdictions and will be enforced by a brand new Unified Patent Court that operates separately from national courts. It is...