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Do I have to identify the designer?
It is possible to waive the name of the designer when filing a European Community Design, but you should be sure that you have the rights to the design
A granted patent will always lapse or expire eventually, normally by 20 years from the date it was originally filed, and plenty of patents permanently lapse earlier than that for a variety of reasons. With that in mind, you might rightly wonder: is it safe to copy the invention that was in the patent? The answer is not as straightforward you might think.
What should you do if your patent comes under attack? Simple – contact your patent attorney at Albright IP! That is exactly what one of our clients did, and we are pleased to have successfully defended his granted patent GB2502993 against a spurious attack by the former patent licensee, Bollard Proof, as decided by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
As a general rule, mathematical methods are excluded from patentability, although practical applications involving mathematics may still be patentable (advances in cryptography, for example). However, mathematical terms themselves aren’t...
‘Tis the season to be jolly, but Marks and Spencer (M&S) is none too happy about Aldi’s two new gin product designs. Whilst Aldi’s Twitter team has been making light of it with some tongue-in-cheek tweets, M&S believes that Aldi has...
Is it too late to file a patent application if you’ve launched your product? Usually the answer is “sorry, it’s too late”, as borne out in a UK IPO decision issued for British patent GB2432556 – a patent for a football goal frame. Kick-off In...
Although probably not the makings of a hit TV programme (you never know…), you may wonder from time to time how your patent application(s) are getting along. After all, it can take years for a patent application to be examined in some countries...
National and regional intellectual property offices are, like all of us, feeling the effects of the on-going Covid-19 outbreak. Some of them have now extended deadlines or put into place corresponding measures which are aimed at helping...
The European Patent Office has announced forthcoming changes to its fees, in line with its usual practice of biennial fee adjustments. The January 2020 edition of the EPO Official Journal sets out further details of the fees that...
