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Giving Sustainable Innovation the Green Light

Many will have seen the recent satellite images highlighting the significant reduction in global air pollution since the shutting down of industrial activity by the coronavirus pandemic.  As the ...

GJE Client News: NEC OncoImmunity AS Announces AI-Developed “Universal Blueprints” for Vaccines Against COVID-19

On 22 April, NEC OncoImmunity AS revealed the results of its robust artificial intelligence (AI)-driven prediction platform in the designing of optimised vaccine compositions suitable for combating th...

Chemistry and Modern Innovation: Part 2 Advancing Chemical Understanding

Our previous article ‘Chemistry and Modern Innovation: Part 1’ outlined the ways in which chemistry has facilitated developments in other industries, looking at a number of innovations reliant on ...

The Notional Business Person at the EPO

The EPO has been routinely refusing patent applications relating to inventions applied in a business sphere as ‘mere automation of a business or administrative method using a computer’.  It is of...

Baby Blues for Shnuggle

In a judgment from the Intellectual Property and Enterprise Court (IPEC) handed down towards the end of 2019, baby baths became the latest product to highlight the importance of the type of images use...

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....

Brexit Update 31/1/20

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...

Addressing Discretion at the UKIPO

In a recent decision the UKIPO had to consider a party seeking to invalidate a design for lack of novelty in view of an earlier filed Chinese design patent and public sales pre-dating the application ...