Guidance

Requests for opinions: 2024

Information about opinions requests we have received this year.

Overview

The table below shows information about opinion requests we have received in 2024 and what stage each request has reached.

For example, you can see whether:

  • you can file observations on a request or whether the period for doing so has expired
  • we have issued an opinion
  • the person who filed the request has withdrawn it
  • we have refused a request for an opinion. Where we’ve issued a decision refusing the request, you can view this in our decisions database

Further information

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2024 requests

Opinion number Patent/SPC number, title and owner Requester and request date Issue (Infringement and/or Validity) Observations deadline Outcome
05/24
EP2756136

Baby Bath - support device

International Refills Company Ltd
Talbots’s Family Products UK LLP

13 February 2024
Infringement18 March 2024 
04/24 EP3697392

Tablets comprising Tamsulosin and Solifenacin

Synthon B.V.
Brand Murray Fuller LLP

29 January 2024
Validity 29 February 2024 
03/24 GB2591134

Door seal

Linear Building Innovations Limited
The Access Panel Company Ltd

18 January 2024
Validity 19 February 2024 
02/24 EP2508122

Advanced Surgical Instrument Such as a Speculum

Bridea, IP Limited
Thomas Gaunt Lewis Silkin LLP

12 January 2024
Infringement 14 February 2024 
01/24 GB2578339

Open Pen Detection and Shut Down System

Greentec International Limited
Jonathan Hewett c/o Lewis Silkin LLP

19 December 2023
Validity 30 January 2024 
Published 3 January 2024
Last updated 219 February 2024 + show all updates
  1. New opinion 05/24 added.

  2. New opinion 04/24 added.

  3. New opinion 03/24 added.

  4. New opinion 02/24 added.

  5. First published.