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EPO Guidelines consultation

On 15 April 2022, CIPA’s Patents Committee submitted a response to the EPO’s consultation on the latest version of the EPC and PCT-EPO Guidelines. The response addresses sections F-IV 4.3(iii) and...

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Response to IPO Consultation on AI and Inventorship

At present there is no clear consensus as to whether existing AI systems can make an “invention” that could be protected under the patent system, however AI systems are certainly involved in...

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Response to the EPO’s user survey on video conferencing

Gwilym Roberts prepared CIPA's response to the EPO President's consultation on the use of video conferencing for oral proceedings, submitted on 30 September 2021. Background to the EPO's survey...

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The UK’s future regime for the exhaustion of IP rights

It is strongly in the interests of intellectual property rights holders to have a national exhaustion regime, in preference to UK+, with an international exhaustion regime significantly behind both...

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Future free trade agreement with India

On 31 August 2021, CIPA submitted a response to the UK government’s request for input on future free trade agreement with India. CIPA members assist their clients (and sometimes employers) in...

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Exhaustion of IP rights

The consultation on the UK’s future regime for the exhaustion of IP rights has been published. Now that the UK has left the European Union, there is an opportunity to choose the future regime for the...

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Concerns over guidance on sharing genetic resources

CIPA has for many years been concerned at the dangers to research and innovation in the UK posed by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources...

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EPO continues with VC oral proceedings pending referral G1/21

CIPA has previously stated its support for videoconference oral proceedings, subject only to the underlying systems being fit for purpose. We welcome the speed at which the Enlarged Board...

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Amicus curiae brief: Oral proceedings by videoconference

On 27 April 2021, CIPA submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on Referral G1/21 ‘Oral proceedings by videoconference’. All amicus curiae briefs can be seen online. CIPA has...

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> What Our Stakeholders Think <

CIPA plays a vital role in maintaining our position as a knowledge based economy and as a major jurisdiction for filing, maintaining and litigating IP rights. I value my links with the institute and the attorney professions as a whole.

Sir Colin Birss, Lord Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal of England and Wales

CIPA is one of the EPO’s most valued partners and we deeply appreciate the input provided by its members. Our exchanges are always insightful, but in times of crisis, as we’ve seen during the pandemic, this close contact with CIPA has been crucial.

António Campinos, President, European Patent Office

CIPA has successfully navigated another year making full use of their impressive talents and creativity. CIPA’s members and leadership have been generous with their feedback on many aspects of EPO policy and practice, especially with regard to oral proceedings by vico.

Steve Rowan, Vice President, European Patent Office

DIT values CIPA’s advice and active support in International Trade Week and in preparing to negotiate IP chapters in the UK’s Free Trade Agreements with Australia, New Zealand and accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Antoinette Graves, Intellectual Property Team, Trade Policy, Department for International Trade (DIT)

CIPA does a really good job of representing the interests and needs of patent attorneys. They make us listen and understand and our decision-making is all the better for it.

Lord Smith, Chairman, Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg)

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