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.

Examination Success

We are very pleased to announce that Rachel Gee, Katherine Green and Matthew Smith have recently passed their examinations and are now qualified European Patent Attorneys. This brings the total number of European Patent Attorneys in the firm to 43.

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Serbia joins the EPC

Serbia has become a contracting State to the European Patent Convention, with effect from 1 October 2010.

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Enlarged Board to consider allowability of disclaimers

A Technical Board of Appeal at the EPO has referred a question to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal.  The question concerns the amendment of a claim to introduce a “disclaimer”, and the circumstances under which such an amendment adds subject matter to an application.  This referral is now pending as case G2/10 ("Disclaimer").

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