LPC Law Notes Commercial and IP Notes
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Rights protecting invention - Patents
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Stage 1 - Registrability
Criteria s.1(1) | S.1(1) lays out 4 x criteria:
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(1) Novelty s.2 |
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Windsurfing International |
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Anticipation (aka enabling disc) | Disc destroys novelty if amounts to enabling disc = enough for someone skilled in the arts to be able to work out invention. Hypothetical test. Nb. Confidential discs don’t destroy novelty |
Self-disc |
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Disc made unlawfully or in breach of conf s.2(4) | S.2(4) provides some exceptions to strict rule on self-disc. Any disc will be disregarded if:
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Grace period s.2(4)(b) | Inventor has grace period of 6 months from disc to file his P application after public disc has prima facie destroyed novelty |
(2) Inventive step s.3 |
(1) (a) identify notional ‘person skilled in art’; and
- the invention can be v simple and still qualify as an ‘inventive step’ |
(3) Industrial application s.4 |
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(4) Not excluded by PA ss.1(1)(d) and ss.1(2) and (3) |
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Application for P |
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Duration s.25 |
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Ownership and licensing ss.7, 30, 39, 40 |
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For infringement q’s, check:
has P come into existence? S.25(1) P takes effect on date grant of P is published
Has P expired? Check renewal fees have been paid...
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A collection of the best LPC Commercial and IP notes the director of Oxbridge Notes (an Oxford law graduate) could find after combing through twenty-nine LPC samples from outstanding students with the highest results in England and carefully evaluating each on accuracy, formatting, logical structure, spelling/grammar, conciseness and "wow-factor".
In short these are what we believe to be the strongest set of CLIP notes available in the UK this year. This collection of notes is fully updated fo...
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