Madoff's lawyer, Ira Sorkin, filed an appeal, and prosecutors responded with a notice of opposition.

"A notice of opposition against a European patent is not inadmissible merely because it has been filed by the proprietor of that patent."

The publication of this mention also marks the start of the nine-month period for giving notice of opposition to the patent to the EPO.

Paper C (5 hours) consists in drafting a notice of opposition against a granted European patent, based on a fictitious letter from a client, a European patent to be opposed, several documents and an EPO opposition form.

On February 6, 2007, LucasArts filed a notice of opposition with the US Patent Office against Digg to uphold their trademark for the game, claiming that Digg was "identical or nearly identical to Opposer's mark The Dig."

He declined to discuss the case, but the Montana Knits trademark application obviously rankled him - his lawyers sent the Doolings a "notice of opposition" to the trademark, which means theyre asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to refuse it.

The Opposition Division may find that the opposition is not deemed to have been filed, for instance because the opposition fee has not been paid within the nine-month opposition period, because the notice of opposition is not signed or because the notice is not in an accepted language.