MEWBURN ELLIS LLP
MEWBURN ELLIS LLP is one of the UK's largest firms of Chartered Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorneys, European Trade Mark Attorneys and European Design Attorneys. We serve clients from the UK and all around the world, covering the full range of intellectual property issues: Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, Industrial Copyright and related matters.
MEWBURN ELLIS LLP is one of the UK's largest firms of Chartered Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorneys, European Trade Mark Attorneys and European Design Attorneys. We serve clients from the UK and all around the world, covering the full range of intellectual property issues: Patents, Trade Marks, Designs, Industrial Copyright and related matters.
Mewburn Ellis LLP appoints second Asia Pacific Liaison
We are delighted to welcome Daniel Holt back to the firm. Daniel trained and qualified as a Patent Attorney with Mewburn Ellis before leaving to work and study in China and Hong Kong. Daniel will be one of our Asia Pacific Liaisons, and will be regularly based in Hong Kong enabling him to liaise directly with our clients and contacts in the Asia Pacific region, especially in China.
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EPO President refers questions to Enlarged Board about software-related inventions
The EPO President Alison Brimelow has referred four questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal at the EPO. This referral seeks to clarify the current position on the patentability of software inventions and is likely to be of great interest to both the software industry and those in the UK legal profession.
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UK Court of Appeal Hands Down Judgement on Software Patents
On 8 October 2008, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgement in Symbian v Comptroller General of Patents. The Court of Appeal decided that the claimed method of operating a computer was not excluded from patentability. The Court identified the “contribution” made by the claims as increasing the speed at which a computer operates and said this could not be a computer program as such because it has the effect of “the computer working better as a matter of practical reality”.
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