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• 2010
  1. Greenpeace fail to stop the patenting of genetically-engineered animals
  2. EPO president elected
  3. The EPO Enlarged Board maintains the status quo for second medical uses
  4. Lack of industrial application: differing judgments of the EPO and the Court of Appeal
  5. Surgical methods: the EPO Enlarged Board decides
  6. The next EPO president – update
  7. Green patents – before and after the Copenhagen summit

• 2009
  1. UK Customs Authority Harmonises Procedure for Seizing Infringements
  2. New Chief Executive Appointed at Intellectual Property Office
  3. The Next EPO President is No Closer
  4. Pre-Budget Report: Reduced Corporation Tax for Income from Patents
  5. The EPO Rejects Reach-Through Claims: Chemical Compounds, Defined Only by a New Function, Lack Sufficiency
  6. European Court of Justice (ECJ) to Decide on the Patentability of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
  7. Forresters Supports the Motor Neurone Disease Association
  8. Forresters Sponsor Genesis 2009
  9. The Court Of Appeal Allows Correction of a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Paediatric Extension
  10. EPO Enlarged Board Allow Their First Petition For Review
  11. Chinese Patent Law Revised From 1 October 2009
  12. Who Owns an Invention? Decide Early!
  13. Forresters Partner is Newspaper’s Intellectual Property Expert
  14. Dragons’ Den Success for Jane Rafter
  15. More Examination Success for Forresters Trainees
  16. San Marino Joins The European Patent Organisation
  17. Facebook Announces Personalised URLs
  18. Warning – Community Trade Mark Filing Service Limited
  19. Warning – Unsolicited Renewal Reminders
  20. Speeding Up Prosecution at the EPO
  21. Reduction in Community Trade Mark Fees
  22. More Examination Success for Forresters Trainees
  23. European Patent Office Decides to Restrict “Abusive” Divisional Applications
  24. New EPO Fees – Acting Before 1 April Could Save Costs
  25. China Climbs Still Higher in International Patent Filing League
  26. UK and China Sign Ground-Breaking IP Agreements
  27. Montenegro to Join EPO Extension States
  28. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joins The European Patent Organisation
• 2008
  1. Forresters Supports the Cancer Counselling Trust
  2. Human Embryonic Stem Cells – A Decision at Last
  3. James Carstairs Retires
  4. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia soon to join the EPO
  5. European Community Trade Marks – Official Fee Reductions Announced
  6. Consolidation of Forresters’ London Offices
  7. UK Software Patents - Court of Appeal Decision in Symbian
  8. New Defences Against Company Name ‘Hijacking’
  9. Forresters Joins Forces with Potts, Kerr & Co.
  10. Fantastic “Dragons’ Den” Success for Forresters Clients
  11. European Examination (EQE) Success for Forresters Trainees
  12. The UK Moves Obviously Closer To Europe – the House of Lords decides Conor vs Angiotech
  13. Examination Success for Forresters IP Administrator
  14. Innocent Infringement of European Community Designs is Out of Fashion, says the High Court
  15. More Examination Success for Forresters Trainees
  16. New Search Procedures For European Community Trade Marks
  17. Reducing the Cost of European Patents
  18. Norway & Croatia join the EPO
• 2007
  1. Forresters Christmas charity donation
  2. Fillip: Forresters help to stimulate Intellectual Property in the West Midlands
  3. UK Trade Marks - Important Changes to Examination Practice
  4. European Divisional Applications – A Decision, at Last!
  5. Examination Success for Forresters Trainees
  6. It's all change at Forresters
  7. A new name for the UK Patent Office
  8. China marches on, with record filing activity…
  9. A step change on inventiveness at the UK Intellectual Property Office? Not yet…
  10. Divisional applications – a decision approaches
• 2006
  1. Game on! Can a “lottery” be patented?
  2. Football hooligans need not apply
  3. Retail services – UK trade marks update
  4. Blackberry Wars
  5. Throwing some light onto UK designs law