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Elizabeth Swan, Senior Associate in the Withers & Rogers Life Sciences and Chemistry team, will today (Monday 27 April) be attending the opening of the GE Healthcare Innovation Village. She will be attending as one of a number of leading life science specialists from industry and academia. GE Healthcare is setting up the Innovation Village […]

Withers & Rogers is pleased to announce the promotion of Denis Keseris to Partner as of 1 April 2015. Denis is a patent attorney in our Electronics, Computing & Physics group. He joined the firm in the London office in 2012 and specialises in information and communications technology, with a particular focus on optical and […]

A recent High Court case (G-Star Raw CV v Rhodi Ltd & Others [2015] EWHC 216 (Ch)) has provided helpful guidance on the assessment of unregistered design right infringement in the UK. This case, one of few fashion designs cases that has reached the High Court in recent times, saw G-Star, a leading European denim […]

The Enlarged Board of Appeal has recently given guidance on the extent to which amendments should be examined for clarity in EPO opposition proceedings in its decision G 3/14 (see here). In a decision that will be welcomed by patent proprietors (but not opponents), the Enlarged Board decided that the clarity of an amendment to […]

In addition to protecting software functionality through obtaining patents, it is also advisable to take the following steps to help deter and or prove copying of your code: • Machine code distribution The distribution only of machine code executed directly by a computer’s processor avoids the need to present higher level code that is more […]

A recent decision from the EPO has confirmed that medical devices cannot be protected using second medical use claims. T773/10 concerns an appeal from an Examination Division decision to refuse a patent application for a dialysis membrane. The membrane itself was known. The applicant was attempting to get patent protection based on its new use […]