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Location and access

Cirencester gives us a perfect base for clients in the West of England and Wales, being particularly convenient for the Midlands and the West Country. Our people there provide an extension of our London team and remain regular visitors to our London office.

 

Our Cirencester office is just 13 miles from Swindon and Gloucester and within walking distance of Cirencester town centre.

 

It is located off the A429 Bristol Road, with easy access to the M5 and M4, and London is only 75 minutes away by train from the nearby Kemble station.

 

If arriving by taxi, ask the driver for 'Watermoor Point on Watermoor Road'.

 

Security demands that we receive visitors strictly by prior appointment. Appointments can be made outside normal business hours on request.

 

 

MoreSelection inventions in life sciences at the EPO

21.08.2024

Selection inventions in life sciences at the EPO

The EPO practice on selection inventions has developed considerably over the past decade. Two recent decisions of the Technical Board of Appeal are particularly instructive for applicants in the life sciences field. The Guidelines for Examination in the EPO (EPC Guidelines) define selection inventions as those that “deal with the selection of individual elements, subsets, or sub-ranges from a more generic disclosure in the prior art”. The Guidelines address the examination of both novelty and inventive step of selection inventions.

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