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News archive for December 2017

All of our news from December 2017

  • EPO G1/16 – clarifies the standard for assessing the allowability of disclaimers

    December 2017

    Earlier this week, the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) issued its decision clarifying the circumstances in which disclaimers can be introduced into a patent claim.

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  • UPC Groundhog Day?

    December 2017

    It’s now December 2017, and for reasons we couldn’t have foreseen in January, it feels the UPC is no nearer to being operational than it was back then.

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  • End of Procedure Notice Not Sufficient to Save an SPC

    December 2017

    The CJEU has confirmed in Decision C-567/16 that an “end of procedure notice” issued by a reference Member State under the decentralised procedure is not equivalent to a marketing authorisation required by Article 3(b) of the SPC Regulation 469/2009 (“the SPC Regulation”).

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  • Season's greetings from HGF

    December 2017

    Season's greetings from HGF!

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  • IP in Retail Conference Amsterdam 2019

    December 2019

    HGF's second IP in Retail Conference Amsterdam will take place on 3rd December.

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  • T0694/16 - New EPO Technical Board of Appeal decision regarding personalised healthcare inventions

    November 2019

    The EPO’s Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.09 in T0694/16 has clarified that claims to purposively selected patients for treatment with a known drug is novel over the prior art treatment of a broader and/or overlapping patient group with the same drug.

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  • IP Protection for Plant Innovation 2019

    November 2019

    HGF Partner Dr Richard Williams will be attending and speaking at IP Protection for Plant Innovation event in Amsterdam on 28-29 November.

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  • IQPC Life Science IP 2019

    November 2019

    HGF are sponsoring IQPC Life Science IP conference on 26-27 November in London with Partner Martyn Fish and Legal Director Michelle Davies attending and speaking.

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  • Life Sciences Patent Network Europe 2019

    November 2019

    HGF Partner Dr Claire Irvine will be hosting a roundtable on Navigating the CRISPR patent and licensing landscape at Life Sciences Patent Network Europe 2019 on 21st November.

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