With the European exams now over, and the PEB exam results day fast approaching, March can be a particularly stressful time of year for trainee patent attorneys. With this in mind, we thought it would be useful to provide some information relating to the PEB exam results, to help trainees, and those around them, know what to expect.
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Patent applications are legal documents with several sections to them. The most important section is the claims, which define how much legal protection the applicant is seeking for an invention. The description describes the invention in more detail and supports the claims.
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Over the last few months the Appleyard Lees Manchester office has slowly been brought back to life and people have started to return to the office. Personally, I am happy to be back in the office and not in the home office every day.
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In October, trainee patent attorneys sat down at their computers to sit the UK qualification exams. These are quite difficult and saw most of us putting in months of revision to maximise our chances of success.
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In this article, trainee patent attorney Andrew Johnston looks at some of the issues raised in this clip pertaining to patents.
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The Mercer Review was published recently in the CIPA Journal, a publication produced by the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. The review examined the requisite training and assessments for qualification as a U.K. registered patent attorney, as well as continued development post-qualification.
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Before I joined Appleyard Lees, I didn’t do much running. That isn’t to say I was a couch potato, but I would normally play sports such as tennis or basketball and I’d never run more than a 5k.
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On the 21st June 2021, I received a message from another trainee in my firm that the results for the European Qualifying Examinations (EQEs) had been released online.
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On day one as a trainee patent attorney most people are bewildered by a range of acronyms (PCT, WIPO, EPO, USPTO, OA, ISA, IPRP… etc.) and law that on first reading makes no sense.
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Firstly, there is no getting around the fact that drafting, filing and prosecuting a patent application can be expensive. The cost can be even more significant for individual applicants, start-ups and SMEs. This is compounded when you consider the possibility that your patent application might not be granted.
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Each member of the life sciences team is given the opportunity to write an article for our website, and in April it was my turn. We can choose a subject we are particularly interested in or something related to what we have been working on.
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