How do you reinstate a lapsed UK patent application?
Reinstatement of a patent application is different to the process required to restore a granted patent that has lapsed due to missing payment of a renewal fee.
Reinstatement of a patent application is different to the process required to restore a granted patent that has lapsed due to missing payment of a renewal fee.
We would like to extend a huge congratulations to Sonja Hyvärinen who has just qualified as a Finnish trade mark attorney.
Did you know that lots of companies are looking to nature to make new textiles, construction materials, wound dressings, and other vital materials?
A right to claim priority exists for 12 months after filing a first patent application for an invention. If this “priority deadline” is missed, the right of priority is lost. Fortunately, the PCT has mechanisms which allow for its restoration, subject to meeting certain criteria.
Potter Clarkson has added two senior patent attorneys to their rapidly expanding life science team in Stockholm.
In the potentially ground-breaking decision on Emotional Perception delivered late last year, the High Court found that a claim relating to a trained artificial neural network (ANN) did not fall foul of the recognised non-patentable subject matter exclusion for being a "computer program as such".