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IP weekly highlights—23 May 2019

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Published on: 23 May 2019
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This week’s edition of IP weekly highlights includes analysis of the impact of Brexit on unregistered IP rights and related rights and the Patents Court’s judgment in Illumina Inc v TDL Genetics Limited that an expert’s report in earlier proceedings could be relied on in later proceedings under a hearsay notice, without requiring the permission of the court. It also includes analysis of the Advocate General’s opinion in Repower AG v EUIPO concerning the legal basis on which the EUIPO Boards of Appeal are able to revoke their own decisions and commentary of the latest trade marks cases.

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