5 things you need to know about The Intellectual Property Act 2014:
The Intellectual Property Act 2014 came into force on 1
October. The Act includes various changes to UK legislation – mainly in the
areas of patents and designs:
1. A
new legal framework for ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement in
the UK.
2. Extension
of grounds on which the UK IPO can provide an invalidity opinion on a patent.
3. It
is no longer necessary to put a patent number on a product. All that is now
required is a link to a webpage listing the patent(s).
4. There
is a new criminal offence for the deliberate copying of a registered design.
5. When
an unregistered design is commissioned, the commissioner will no longer be the
owner of the design unless there is a contract to assign in place.
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