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We are delighted to announce that three partners have been recognised in the 2020 edition of Who’s Who Legal. Who’s Who Legal identifies the foremost legal practitioners and consulting exper...
The UK has supported the creation of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent (UP) since its inception. In recent years, the government has fought for London to have part of the main branch...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...