News archive for 2017
All of our news from 2017
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HGF Birmingham go straight in at Tier 2 in The Legal 500
October 2017
The HGF Birmingham office have been ranked for the first time in the West Midlands and have immediately been positioned at Tier 2 in The Legal 500, with Marie McMorrow (Partner and IP Solicitor) listed as a leading individual and Tom Nener (Legal Director and IP Solicitor) listed as a next generation lawyer.
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Use of Images of Registered Community Designs – Nintendo v BigBen
October 2017
The CJEU has ruled (Nintendo Co. Ltd v BigBen Interactive GmbH, BigBen Interactive SA, C‑24/16 and C‑25/16)that third parties may use images of goods protected by registered community designs for certain specific commercial purposes, delivering a setback to design rights owners. In this case, use of images of Nintendo’s consoles, alongside BigBen’s own console accessories to demonstrate the compatibility of the products did not infringe Nintendo’s registered designs.
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Changes to IP Law from 1 October 2017
October 2017
On 1 October 2017 a number of reforms to IP law came into force.
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UPC Prep Comm - Further progress, yet further delays
September 2017
The UPC Preparatory Committee has posted an update on the "Progress on the Unified Patent Court Project"
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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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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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EMA Concept Paper - Interface between Companion Diagnostics and Medicines Development
August 2017
Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatments to individual patients based on their predicted response or risk of disease. It can avoid unnecessary treatment, improve drug-development success rates and reduce costs. Biomarker-based assays have become key tools in the personalised medicine arsenal. A companion diagnostic compares the effect of a medicinal product in patients with and without a particular biomarker.
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Plausibility at the EPO - Decision T 0488/16 Dasatinib/BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIB
August 2017
An inventive step requiring particular technical effect or solving a particular problem must have a plausible disclosure of having achieved that in the original specification.
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