Supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) allow for up to five and half years of additional patent protection for a medicinal product that has been authorised to […]

The end of the BREXIT transition period has no effect on European patents or patent applications. The European Patent Office (EPO) is European in name […]

A number of IP rights that apply across the European Union no longer apply to the United Kingdom, now that it has left the EU […]

A number of IP rights that apply across the European Union no longer apply to the United Kingdom, now that it has left the EU […]

The White Paper was produced by UK Government to propose a relationship between the UK and the EU post-Brexit. But what does it mean for the UPC?

The UK has ratified the UPC Agreement – this is a good thing for the UPC. However, the stumbling block for the UK’s continued membership of the UPC is that the UPC is subject to the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which is a no-no for the UK post-Brexit.