The rate of innovation is exploding. Technologies and services that were beyond imagination a generation ago are now taken for granted. Intellectual property rights play a crucial role in innovation. They ensure results can be commercially exploited by the owner. Intellectual Property rights allow inventors, researchers and creators to pour... Continue reading
Published 13 March 2013 Last updated 3 September 2018 + show all updates 3 September 2018 Unofficial Consolidation Design Rules Document updated. 25 February 2015 Updated version of the Registered Designs Act 1949. 1 October 2014 Updated version of the Registered Designs Act 1949. 13 March 2013 First published. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/registered-designs-act-and-rules Content... Continue reading
The trade marks manual sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices. Each section of this manual tells you how we deal with particular actions, cases, or aspects of cases. We consider each case on its merits and fully consider all the relevant factors of a case, especially... Continue reading
The trade marks manual sets out guidance on the Intellectual Property Office work practices. Each section of this manual tells you how we deal with particular actions, cases, or aspects of cases. We consider each case on its merits and fully consider all the relevant factors of a case, especially... Continue reading
The Patents Act 1977 is the main law governing the patents system in the UK. An unofficial consolidation produced by Patents Legal Section, July 2018. The consolidation lays out in an easy to reference format the sections of the act, in a similar layout to the Manual of Patent Practice... Continue reading
Consequential amendments; 1. [repealed] 2. [repealed] 3. [repealed] 4. In subsection (4) of section 4 of the Defence Contracts Act 1958, for the words from “Patents Act 1949” to the end there shall be substituted “Patents Act 1977”. 5. (1) In subsections (2) and (3) of section 10 of the... Continue reading
Derogation from patent protections in respect of biotechnological inventions Interpretation 1. In this Schedule; “Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 2100/94 of 27th July 1994 on Community plant variety rights; “farmer’s own holding” means any land which a farmer actually exploits for plant growing, whether as his property or... Continue reading
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