UPC latest: Transparency relief | German firm splits

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UPC latest: Transparency relief | German firm splits

Max Walters
January 14 2025
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An injunction concerning head lice treatment, a positive ruling on access to documents, a German firm splitting, and moves involving Finnegan and Morgan Lewis were among the top stories

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NewsEuropean Patent ConventionPatentsUnitary patent and UPCLife sciencesBird & BirdTaylor Wessing (Germany)Powell GilbertSimmons & Simmons (Germany)Morgan Lewis & BockiusFinneganBristowsDLA PiperHoffmann Eitle
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