Emily Hayes - September 6, 2024 Preparing your patent for success in EPO opposition proceedings Emily Hayes shares five simple prosecution tips to strengthen EP patents, ensuring they are in the ...
Emily Hayes - December 20, 2023 Amended Rules of Procedure of the EPO Boards of Appeal are coming into force on 1 January 2024 The EPO Boards of Appeal have now published their amended Rules of Procedure and these will be ...
Jacqueline Murphy - November 8, 2023 Validating European patents outside Europe - the Validation State system We are pleased to launch our latest report Validating European patents outside Europe - the ...
Emily Hayes - August 5, 2022 We perform significantly better than the EPO average at oppositions We really are experts when it comes to opposing patents and our enviable success rate speaks for ...
Emily Hayes - April 7, 2022 EPO extends pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 December 2022 On 6 April 2022, the EPO issued a notice extending its pilot project for conducting oral ...
Katherine Green - January 26, 2022 A guide to EPO opposition proceedings by videoconference EPO oppositions by videoconference only became possible relatively recently, in April 2020. In 2021 ...
Emily Hayes - November 24, 2021 EPO extends pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 May 2022 On 23 November 2021, the EPO issued a notice extending its pilot project for conducting oral ...
Emily Hayes - October 29, 2021 Videoconference oral proceedings: Enlarged Board of Appeal issues reasons for its decision in G 1/21 The Enlarged Board has now issued its full written decision in G 1/21 relating to videoconference ...
Emily Hayes - July 21, 2021 Board of Appeal oral proceedings may be held by videoconference (ViCo) in an emergency On 16 July 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal confirmed that Board of Appeal oral proceedings may ...
Emily Hayes - October 28, 2019 Meet The Team: Emily Hayes, Partner, European Patent Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Emily Hayes about her journey to becoming a ...
Emily Hayes - July 9, 2019 New Rules of Procedure at the Boards of Appeal – what does this mean for patentees and opponents? Revised Rules of Procedure at the Boards of Appeal have been approved by The Administrative Council ...
Emily Hayes - July 5, 2019 A Myriad of effects Even though the decision in Myriad is now 6 years old and there have been several follow-on cases, ...
Emily Hayes - March 25, 2019 Playing for time: strategies that can help extend a drug's patent life In our new magazine Forward, we interview C Hunter Baker of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks PC. Hunter ...
Emily Hayes - January 30, 2019 Commercialising genomic research in the US: tips for obtaining patent protection The field of genomics has seen incredible advances over the past few decades. Technological ...
