Britain leaving the E.U. is a hot topic with many areas which may be affected, parrallel imports and the doctrine of exhaustion of rights may be rearing its (ugly) head.
The EPO and UK tests for assessing the requirement of Âinventive step  Is it obvious? The law governing patents in the United Kingdom is today contained in the Patents Act 1977 (thereafter ÂPA 1977Â). This Act was adopted both to implement, inter alia, the European Patents Convention (thereafter ÂEPCÂ) concluded in Munich in 1973, and to modernise the existing UK patents legislation dating back from 1949. One of the aims of the EPC was to lay down a set of rules that would be common to all 13 Member States, making it therefore possible with one application to obtain and enforce a patent in up to 13 countries. Consequently, one major characteristic of the PA 1977 is the strong similarity between the wording of some of its main provisions and the corresponding provisions of the EPC. A good example is provided by section 1 (1) PA 1977, that laid down the four requirements for an invention to be patentable, which is almost identical to article 52 (1) and (2) EPC.
An Interim Injunction is the first step in the legal process, this allows a company to protect its intellectual property rights and halt the production of possible infringing articles while a court properly considers the case.
Copyright law can often seem like a long and complicated topic to get a good grasp on. Any form of copyright in the United Kingdom, may it be music or otherwise, is governed mainly by the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). With a few exceptions, understanding copyright law can be done by answering six questions:
In the United Kingdom, the main dispute between Samsung and Apple was over Apple’s community registered design 000181607-0001. This is the same design Apple uses
The first and arguably the most controversial change in the bill is the introduction of criminal sanctions on blatant copying of registered designs. A person
Discusses the requirements for qualification of copyright protection in the UK by reference to the author.
Make sure you assert your claim and above all try Jaw Jaw not War War
Short note on some of the cases in relation to trade mark infringement over the internet and the impact of jurisdictional issues on this point.
