Welcome to the December issue of the Downing IP Newsletter  with our tribute to Professor Heinz Wolff I had planned a look back over the year - I was going to cast my mind all the way back to January  when I persuaded an EPO Board of Appeal to finally revoke a patent that had long been an irritant to my client Oxford Lasers  and then scan forward taking in highlights such as Stephanie’s arrival in August and the office move in September