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 [...]
Following a UK Patents Court ruling in July last year (subsequently upheld by the UK Court of Appeal) wherein it was held that certain Samsung tablets do not infringe Apple’s Registered Community Design (RCD) No. 000181607-0001, the EU designs registry known by its official title of “Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market” (OHIM) has [...]
It was good to see one of our valued clients, Professor Austin Darragh, featured in the Business section of the Sunday Independent newspaper. Professor Darragh and Dr JJ Leahy have developed a new groundbreaking technology which should result in larger and healthier crops. The feature can be found below: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/wave-goodbye-to-global-warming-gm-and-pesticides-29525621.html
A trade mark can become a generic term if it is not used properly. Examples of well known generic terms which were originally trade marks are “escalator” and “aspirin”. “Hoover” is a good example of a trade mark which very nearly became a generic term. Collins English Dictionary contains conflicting references in the sense that [...]
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