News archive for December 2016

All latest updates

• EU trade mark regulation changes applying 1 October 2017

  September 2017

  Last March, the new EU trade mark regulation brought a number of changes to trade mark practice at the EUIPO into being. The Amending Regulation also contained a number of provisions that would come into force only 21 months after its publication, as they had to be developed by secondary legislation. These changes will apply from 1 October 2017.

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• Oxford Bacteriophage Conference 2017

  September 2017

  HGF Partner Craig Thomson will be Co-presenting "Creating Impact: The challenges and opportunities of commercialisation in the field of bacteriophage research" alongside Professor Martha RJ Clokie.

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• EU Commission Paper on IP and Brexit

  September 2017

  The European Commission Brexit Task Force has published its Position Paper on IP rights and Brexit.

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• UK Registered Designs: displaying your rights using webmarking from 1 October 2017

  September 2017

  Showing the world the registered design protection you have for your products in the UK will get easier from 1 October 2017; from this date you will have the option of marking your product with a web address which associates the product with a UK registered design number(s).

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• HGF is listed 2nd in the top 100 trade mark filers of both UK & EU applications 2016 in CITMA Review.

  September 2017

  HGF, one of Europe's leading IP firms, is listed 2nd in the top 100 trade mark filers for both EU & UK filings.

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