News archive for September 2013

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• IP Seminar - Practical Tips to Maximise Success in EPO Oppositions and Appeals

  January 2019

  HGF are hosting a seminar on practical tips to maximise success in EPO oppositions and appeals in Basel on Wednesday 16th January.

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• EPO Technical Board of Appeal considers Plants produced by Essentially Biological Process are in fact Patentable

  December 2018

  In an appeal from an Examining Division decision, the Board of Appeal stated that the recently introduced R.28(2) EPC is in conflict with A.53(b) EPC as interpreted in both the Enlarged Board decisions G2/12 and G2/13 (“broccoli II” and “tomatoes II”). The Board held that under A.164(2) EPC the provisions of the convention, i.e. the Articles of the EPC, must prevail. Effectively, the Board indicated that G2/12 and G2/13 should be followed in allowing claims to plants produced by essentially biological processes, and that the contradictory R.28(2) EPC should be considered void.

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• Global IP Exchange USA

  December 2018

  Lucy Johnson and Craig Thomson will be attending the IQPC Global IP Exchange, which takes place 5th - 7th December in Georgia USA.

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• IQPC Life Sciences IP 2018

  November 2018

  Rachel Fetches and Kate Taylor will be speaking at IQPC Life Sciences IP conference 27th-28th November in London.

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• The Bessemer Society Fellowship Award Dinner

  November 2018

  HGF is proud to sponsor 'The Bessemer Society Fellowship Award Dinner 2018' at the Armourers and Brasiers Hall, London on Tuesday, 20th November 2018.

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