Michael Caine from Davis Collison Cave Pty Ltd recently carried out a study to identify the various national requirements for the effective transfer of priority rights in accordance with Article 4A(1) of the Paris Convention. The study focused on the manner in which various countries and regions have implemented the provisions of Article 4A(1) and resulted in some useful guidelines.

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The ruling of the UK Supreme Court in Actavis v Lilly (July 2017) has changed the way that patents will be interpreted in the UK, and, according to a new doctrine of equivalents, the scope of patent protection will exten