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Brexit Impact on Trade Marks

The UK leaves the EU on 31 January 2020 and will then enter a transitional period which means that essentially, the UK remains part of the EU for Intellectual Property purposes until 31 December 2020....

Justifying a Threat – Reason to Think Twice About Cease and Desists

Patents are often held up as a significant tool for someone to stop competitors in their tracks.  Indeed, if you have ever been on the receiving end of a cease and desist letter you may have felt you...

EPO Refuses Patent Application Naming an “AI Inventor”

The EPO has recently refused two patent applications that designated a machine as the inventor: EP18275163 and EP18275174 .  In both of these cases the inventor was designated as a...

The Patent Power Struggle in Surgical Robotics

This article was originally published on Med tech Innovation News and remains their copyrighted material.  Follow this link to read the full article Not everyone who works in the field ...

Bittersweet News for Employee Compensation in the Pharmaceutical Sector

The UK Supreme Court’s decision in Shanks v Unilever has provided some guidance on the circumstances that may lead to an inventor being entitled to a financial reward from their employer under ...

Chemical Oppositions – Can Experimental Data be the Key to Success? Part 1

There is a nine-month window in which anyone can oppose the grant of a European patent.  If the opponent is successful, the patent can be limited to a scope that they can work around, or the patent c...

Chemical Oppositions – Can Experimental Data be the Key to Success? Part 2

There is a nine-month window in which anyone can oppose the grant of a European patent.  If the opponent is successful, the patent can be limited to a scope that they can work around, or the patent c...

Advances in Gene Therapy: The End of the Era of Incurable Genetic Diseases?

Editing an individual’s DNA, to prevent or treat a genetic disease, at one time seemed an impossible task.  Remarkably, we are now living in an age of medical development where decades of labor...

Do the Latest Sales Figures and Patent Activity Suggest the Electric Vehicle Market Is Stalling?

Sales of low-emission cars recently fell in the UK for the first time in over two years in a development that the Society of Motor Manufactures and Traders called a “grave concern” for the industr...

UKIPO Publishes Research into AI Patent Filings

It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one to hear that investment in Artificial Intelligence has risen sharply over the last few years.  This is supported by a recent report published by the UK...