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National validation and translation costs currently make the cost of obtaining a patent in Europe around ten times as expensive as obtaining a patent in the USA. In the absence of agreement on proposals for a single EU patent, and in a bid to make the application process cheaper, the European Commission this week presented a proposal for ‘enhanced cooperation’ between some member states. Under the proposal, EU applicants not using English, French or German as their home language can file applications in any other official language of the EU, with the applicant then being reimbursed for the cost of translation into English, French or German. Applicant’s inventions would be protected in all countries participating in the scheme.
Whilst enhanced cooperation may go someway towards reducing costs of applying for patent protection in the EU, this halfway-house measure is likely to detract from the ultimate aim for a fully single European patent.
As has been widely reported this week, some 3,000 UK workers are taking part in a six month trial to assess the viability of a four-day working week without any reduction in their normal pay.
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In Nissan v Passi, the High Court recently considered the issue of an employee retaining confidential documents belonging to his former employer in the context of the employer’s application for an injunction seeking the return of such documents from the employee.
The UK government is considering extending this power to depart from retained EU case law to additional lower courts and tribunals, namely the Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and their equivalents.
Lord Justice Arnold has applied the guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the evidence before him, in the long standing trade mark dispute between Sky and Skykick.
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