HGF Office

Leeds

1 City Walk,
Leeds,
LS11 9DX

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HGF is dedicated to providing a comprehensive service both across Europe and internationally. Contact us to find out how we can work with your business.

Tel. +44 (0)113 233 0100

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HGF Leeds is our firm’s head office, located in the heart of the city. Offering full-service IP, our Leeds team works closely with clients to fully understand their business, maximise the potential of their IP and minimise risk with technical and commercially sound advice.

Our trade mark and patent teams based in Leeds specialise in law, trade marks, chemistry and engineering. We are passionate about the continued development of ideas and technology in Yorkshire and the North-East and have strong relationships within the local business community.

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    PRESS RELEASE – HGF strengthens European presence with three new Partners in France and Germany

    HGF is pleased to announce the arrival of three new partners, further strengthening its European presence. Two partners will be joining the firm’s fast-growing French practice, and one will join …

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    G1/23: The Enlarged Board of Appeal shift EPO practice towards an “on-sale” bar.

    Last week, the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) issued its Decision that both a product put on the market before the date of filing of a European patent application, …

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    The EPO Board of Appeal comments on the scope of the morality exclusion from patentability

    The recent decision, T1553/22 of the Board of Appeal required the Board to consider the scope of the exclusions from patentability under Article 53(a) EPC. The invention in this case …

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    As we head into a new season, it’s a good time to revisit the current status of protection for Essentially Derived Varieties (EDVs) and plants derived from New Genomic Techniques …

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    Event - 12th September 2025

    Wolters Kluwer Breakfast Panel on AI & IP at AIPPI

    Sofie McPherson, Patent Director at HGF, will be moderating a special breakfast panel session hosted by Wolters Kluwer at the AIPPI World Congress in Yokohama on 15 September 2025. Session …

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    T1465/23 – No Narrowing by Description—EPO Board Terminates Inventive Step Analysis for Arbitrary Modifications Citing G1/24 and G1/19

    “The potential patentability of a specific narrow embodiment…cannot render a claim allowable which, due to its breadth, encompasses a multitude of other, non-inventive embodiments” – r. 3.5. Background EP3113515 was …

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