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News archive for December 2015

All of our news from December 2015

  • “A Christmas Present for Trade Mark Owners: EU Trade Mark Reform package to be published on Christmas Eve

    December 2015

    On the 16th December, the European Parliament approved the new EU Trade Mark Reform Package.

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  • Draft legislation for the modified UK Patent Box regime

    December 2015

    Following the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report in October, setting out the international framework with which the ‘next generation’ of Patent/IP boxes will need to comply the draft legislation for the UK’s modified Patent Box regime was published earlier this month.

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  • European Trade Mark reform package meets final approval

    December 2015

    Yesterday the European Parliament approved a set of reforms to European Trade Mark legislation.

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  • The first of Unwired Planet’s standard essential patents held valid and infringed

    December 2015

    This action stands out because it involves an acquired patent declared to be essential to a wireless telecommunications standard, where the Patent was held to be valid and used in the standard, which means that anyone operating in compliance with the standard will need to negotiate a FRAND licence with the Patent proprietor.

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    The EPO Boards of Appeal took the decision that from the start of 2021, all Boards of Appeal oral proceedings could be held by videoconference, even if the parties to the proceedings were not in agreement (ostensibly aping the position before Opposition and Examining Divisions).

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    March 2021

    Husch Blackwell is holding webinar series on intellectual property. 16th March session will focus on global patent protection.

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