The current IPR Regulation will be replaced on the 1st of January 2014 by Council Regulation No. 608 of 2013. This new Regulation will simplify the process where the Customs Authorities intervene in suspected cases of counterfeit goods, namely from January 2014 a new application form must be used for "applications for action" while there [...]
Denis McCarthy, Carla MacLachlan and Mary Hunt attended the ISME (Irish Small and Medium Enterprises) Annual Conference at the RDS on Friday, November 8 2013.
Dr. Yvonne McKeown will be attending the Executive Committee meeting of UNION in Liechtenstein on November 13th to 15th.
Bernadette Walsh, who is on the INTA Programs Committee, will be attending the Leadership Meeting in Miami Beach in the United States. According to the INTA website, the Leadership Meeting will be "rich in hot topics and trademark flare". The sessions will include advanced-level topics highlighting the rapid evolution in technologies, the latest information on [...]
The news section of the European Patent Office website www.epo.org notes today that an amendment of the provisions of the European Patent Convention dealing with the requirements for the filing of divisional applications has been adopted. The decision enters into force on 1st April 2014 and will apply to divisional applications filed on or after [...]
It has been widely reported that Ireland is the fifth biggest exporter in the pharmaceutical field and that many blockbuster drugs have either recently lost or will soon lose their patent protection with few new drugs having been developed to replace the money-making blockbusters. For example, Irish-made cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor (Pfizer) and schizophrenia drug Zyprexa [...]
Norman MacLachlan will be attending ECTA's 66th Council Meeting in St. Julian’s, Malta from 17-19th October 2013.
Dr. Isabel Unwin will be attending the Royal Society of Chemistry's event "Science and Stormont 2013" on Monday 14th October 2013. This event is designed to develop closer links between the scientific community in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive. Presentations will be based on the theme of Health and Innovation.
Denis McCarthy will be attending the FICPI 14th Open Forum in Sorrento which is taking place from October 2nd-5th. FICPI is the federation of international intellectual property attorneys in private practice. There will be many speakers from around the world who will address a host of issues including cross-border patent infringement litigation in the EU and protecting inventions [...]
As sick children lay in bed over 30 years ago listening to their friends playing outside in the sunshine, there was one advantage they usually had over those friends: a glass of Lucozade brought up to them by their loving mothers. It was, as a slogan said at the time, the “nice part of being [...]