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13 February 2012
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IPKat: Latest posts by Darren Smyth

Partner Darren Smyth has made his second and third posts since joining the IPKat as a guest blogger.

What is obvious - the route or the destination? is about the approach taken by patent offices to the analysis of inventive step in the case of a product claim defined structurally.

No self-incrimination privilege for phone hacking relates to proceedings in the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World.



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