Brexit is not expected to have any impact on the United Kingdom remaining part of the European Patents Office (EPO). This is the main conclusion drawn from a meeting between the EPO, headed by its president, Benoît Battistelli, and a delegation from the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), the British body in charge of examining patents, on 24 January last.
“The EPO is not an EU agency but an independent international organisation, of which the UK is a founding member”,...