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  Business names: March 2006
Letter to Lord Sainsbury re registered company names proposals in company law reform bill of 2006.

  Chatham House survey: August 2005
Response of March 2003 to Chatham House survey on disclosure of genetic origin in patent applications.

  Clementi Review: April 2005
Letter to DCA of April 2005 re: Clementi Review.

  ComPat: Common Political Approach: March 2004
Federation comment of February 2004 to UKPO on CPA

  ComPat: jurisdictional arrangements: February 2004
Federation comment of February 2004 on Commission proposals as to jurisdictional arrangments

  Copyright consultation by UK-IPO: Federation response March 08
Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed Changes to Copyright Exceptions

  Copyright: collective management across boundaries: July 2005
Response of July 2005 to Commission consultation on cross-border collective management of copyright.

  Criminal sanctions directive; draft: October 2005
October 2005 response to Commission proposal for a criminal sanctions directive and framework decision.

  Database directive: March 2005
Letter March 2005 to UKPO on ECJ ruling in BRB v William Hill re: database right.

  Disclosure of genetic resources in patent applications: September 2004
Federation comment of September 2004 to Commission''s proposal to require compulsory disclosure of genetic origin of invention in PCT applications

  EC Commission: future of the internal market consultation: June 2006
Response to the Commission consultation on its strategy for the future of the intenal market of June 2006

  EPLA (European Patent Litigation System): December 2004
Federation position on EPLA of May 2003 and December 2004

  EPO fee proposals: October 2007
Federation comment to EPO on fee proposals

  EPO future workload paper: Federation response of: May 2008
EPO Future Workload Study; document CA 144/07 – Comments by TMPDF: May 2008

  EPO strategic debate: November 2004
Federation comment of November 2004 on EPO strategic debate

  EPO: dossier on problems up to: March 2006
March 2006 letter to UKPO re EPO document CA/PL-4/06 on JPO proposal for a patent prosecution highway.

  EPO: EPC 2000 Rules: September 2006
Comment to EPO, UKPO, UNICE re draft EPC 2000 Rules September 2006

  EU Commission Review of copyright and related rights: October 2004
Federation comment of October 2004 to the Commission Review of EC legal framework in the field of copyright and related rights

  EU copyright levies: July 2006
Response to DG Internal Market consultation on copyright levies in a converging world of June 2006

  EU Design Directive: Spare parts: January 2005
Comment to Commission January 2005 on its Proposal to amend Directive 98/71/EC on the legal protection of designs.

  EU Design Directive: spare parts: May 2005
Response of May 2005 to UKPO consultation on Commission proposal to amend Directive 98/7/EC on the legal protection of designs.

  EU internal market's communication re: management of copyright and related rights: June 2004
Federation comment of June 2004 to the Commission's communication re the management of copyright and related rights

  EU Patent litigation Insurance: December 2006
Letter to Commission re patent litigation insurance re report of October 2006

  EUPR: response to draft agreement on European Patent Court October 08
Patent litigation in Europe: Federation comment on Presidency document 14970/08 : EU Patent Jurisdiction

  European database directive evaluation: March 2006
March 2006 response to DG Internal Market and Services Working Paper; First evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on legal protection of databases

  European patent litigation system: March 2008
Patent litigation in Europe: Federation comment on Presidency document 7001/08: EU Patent Jurisdiction – Main features of the court system (first part); Remedies, procedures and other measures (second part).

  European patent litigation system: October 2007
Federation position paper on European patent litigation system

  European Research Area consultation: September 2007


  European Transparency Initiative: March 2008
Response to the Commission''s consultation on the European Transparency Initiative

  European Transparency Initiative: September 2006
Response to the Commission conultation on the European Transparency Initiative September 2006

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