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Category: Start-Ups
- Temu takedown means a merrier Christmas for small Welsh business
- Trade Marks: The UK and Ireland TikTok Award Winners 2024
- A deep dive into the Role of European Universities in Patenting and Innovation
- Talk IP with R&G: From Idea to Invention – Demystifying the Patent Journey for Start-Ups
- Lessons in Success through IP Strategy: A look at ARM Plc
- Intellectual Property Rights Improve Funding and Exit Performance of European Start-ups
- Talk IP with R&G: Fire-Side Chat How Focal Point Fires has leveraged the Patent Box
- What use are patents to my startup / SME?
Category: IP news
- SkyKick v Sky: Supreme Court clarifies bad faith
- The Court of Appeal has its say on patenting artificial neural networks in the UK
- First UPC proceeding decision
- Legal Update: EPO to accept electronic signatures on assignments and declarations from 1st April 2024
- Fee Reductions at the EPO for micro-entities, including innovators, entrepreneurs, universities and microenterprises
- What Next for Patenting Software Implemented Artificial Neural Network Inventions in the UK?
- Reddie & Grose Announces Partner Retirements
- Act NOW to retain your UK plant variety right “Brexit clone”
- UPC Headquarter Agreement
- Intellectual Property as a Tangible Business Asset
- An overview of Technical Board of Appeal decisions since G2/21: where are we with post-published evidence?
- Graduate Trainee Reflections 2023
- European Patent Office will accelerate oppositions where an infringement or revocation action is instituted before the Unified Patent Court or another court
- How a Recent Judgment in the UK Regarding Patenting AI-based Inventions May Influence IP Strategy for AI Innovators
- AI Newsletter – November 2023
- Amgen v. Sanofi before the US Supreme Court and in Europe
- Legal Update: Changes in European Patent Practice concerning deadlines
- UPC opt-outs and revocation actions: Gaps and anomalies in the Rules of Procedure of the UPC
- Assigning a right to priority – T 1946/21
- The EPO publishes decision on the DABUS appeal (J 08/20) – Can an AI be an inventor in a European patent application?
- Changes to the European Patent Office Guidelines for Assessing the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions following the Enlarged Board of Appeal Decision in G1/19
- Optis And Unwired Planet v Apple [2021] EWHC 2564 (Pat) – in FRAND disputes what is a willing licensee? And does Apple’s desire to “pick and choose” make them an unwilling licensee?
- AI in an IP world
- EPO Board of Appeal to hear arguments on DABUS AI case
- Legislative Update: Autonomous vehicles en route to UK roads
- Government responds to the Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property call for views
- Life at Reddie & Grose
Category: 日本語
- 初のUPC訴訟判決
- 統一特許裁判所のこの１年－より詳しく
- この一年のＵＰＣの経過
- 英国高等法院判決［Emotional Perception AI Ltd v The UKIPO］：英国知的財産庁は、コンピュータ実装発明、および人工知能実装発明の特許性評価のアプローチを変更するか？
- イノベータ、起業家、大学、および零細企業などのマイクロエンティティ向けのＥＰＯ料金の軽減について
- 法改正－期限に関する欧州特許実務の変更
- UPCにおけるプロテクティブ・レター
- 拡大審判部のG2/21決定「もっともらしさ」: EPOに対し進歩性を論議する際の出願後データへの依存について
Category: Automotive & Future Transport
- Volvo’s experiments with non-traditional trade marks to protect Thor’s Hammer
- The Future of Clean Transportation: Do we have the infrastructure for BEVs and FCEVs?
- Standards Essential Patents and the Automotive Sector: A UPC update
- Talk IP with R&G: The Key IP Players Driving Future Propulsion Technologies
- Business Cases for Space Mining
- Tesla sues former supplier for misappropriation of trade secrets related to battery manufacturing
- Future Mobility Innovation Reaches New Speeds in the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing Cars League
- The UK Space Strategy in Action
- Axial-Flux Motors – A Game Changer?
- National Engineers Week: 18-24 February 2024
- Reflections & future-gazing on World Automobile Day
- eFuels: an alternative way of fuelling the transportation sector to achieve carbon-neutrality
- Porsche’s Trade Mark Application for European-Wide Sound Mark Refused by the EUIPO
- World EV Day: Innovators are Driving the Change towards Sustainable Emobility
- Sustainable Innovation Report 2023
- Integrating Solar Power and Transportation: A Step Towards More Sustainable Mobility
- The Future of Transport
- EU seeks to improve sustainability of batteries
- Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: Computer Vision
- Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: RADAR
- Innovations in Aviation – hydrogen-powered propulsion
- Zero Emission Road Freight Demonstration programme – a new funding competition aiming to make HGVs green
- What are the current issues with EV battery technology?
- Solid-state batteries – ready for the mainstream?
- £40 Million Announced for Commercialising UK Connected and Automated Mobility Solutions
- How to power the sensors of the future
- Electric Motors – The Ecosystem and the Players
- Women in STEM: Dr Bernadette Longridge, Engineering Centre Manager, AVL
- Women in STEM: Karen Given, Senior Systems Engineer at McLaren Applied
- The cars that are flying into the future
- There’s nothing new under the sun – a brief look at historical climate change patents – Part 4: Electric Vehicles
- E-BIKE & E-SCOOTERS: The electrification of the last mile
- Automotive Round Table: Sustainability in the automotive industry – and why ICE may be more sustainable than you think
- To Boldly Go Where No Billionaire Has Gone Before
- Sustainable Future: Exploring innovations for the Energy Transition and Circular Economy
- Can Patents Protect Ingenuity?
- What is future for biofuels?
- Net Zero by 2050 – A new IEA report highlighting a roadmap reliant on improvements in traditional, and development of disruptive, technologies
- Generating Hydrogen – a potential alternative, or supplement, to batteries?
- Innovations in Aviation – electric propulsion
- Flying High on a Sea of Innovation
- Automotive Round Table: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and the question of security
- Ferrari race ahead after encouraging judgement from the CJEU
- Which Companies Are Filing Hyperloop Patents?
- Boris Johnson’s “ambitious” ten point plan for a green industrial revolution
- Automotive Round Table: The EV landscape promises a bright shiny future – but there will be bumps in the road?
- Which companies are filing e-scooter patents?
- The Automotive Transformation Fund – a new funding competition to move the automotive sector to zero emissions
- What role will fuel cells play in future electric vehicles?
- Electric Vehicle Charging is Moving Forwards
- Watch this SpaceX
- Flying taxis – are they just around the corner or a pipe dream?
- THE FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES
- Modelling the Future of Patent Protection
- The UK transport sector’s journey to zero carbon emissions
- Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: LIDAR
- Toyota Driving for Electric Vehicle Cooperation?
- Solid-state Batteries – A Potential Game-Changer in Energy Storage?
- The Future Of Automotive Powertrains
- Patents for self-driving cars under the microscope
- The Dearman Engine – power from thin air
- Japanese Automotive Companies being overtaken in the race for self-driving cars
- Rise of the machines – Is Artificial Intelligence patentable?
- Driverless cars take a step towards the streets of London
- A Goodyear for Electric Vehicles
- How autonomous vehicles will change IP strategies
- Secrets, Patents and Driverless Cars
- Driverless cars: Grand Deft Autos
- Artificial car noises and intellectual property protection
Category: Advanced Engineering
- Outer Space Resource Acquisition – A Legal Perspective
- Innovation & patent protection: Capitalising on decommissioning
- Patenting artificial intelligence and neural networks in Germany
- Year in Review: Artificial Intelligence at the EPO in 2022
- Boost to the UK battery sector
- UKIPO Releases new Guidance on AI Inventions
- The innovation behind road bike disc brakes
- An Introduction to AI
- There’s nothing new under the sun – a brief look at historical climate change patents – Part 6: Catalytic Converters
- There’s nothing new under the sun – a brief look at historical climate change patents – Part 5: Biofuels
- There’s nothing new under the sun – a brief look at historical climate change patents – Part 3: Ocean Energy
- Renewable heating – from COP26 and the UK’s soaring gas prices
- Innovations in small satellites…
- RECYCLING SOLAR PANELS – Completing the sustainability cycle of photovoltaic power generation
- There’s nothing new under the sun (part 1) – a brief look at historical climate change patents
- COP26: Is now the time to capture carbon?
- Shimano shifts up a gear
- The Artemis Accords
- EPO Report on Cosmonautics
- Patenting Graphical User Interfaces at the EPO and UK IPO
- Space-Based Solar Power – a patent perspective
- Beam My Picture Up, Scotty…
- Path to Unlocking the Full Potential of Photovoltaic Power Generation
- Innovation in electricity storage – a global report by the EPO and the IEA
- NASA’s Lunar Loo Challenge
- Call for rapid sanitising technology for ambulances
- The UK manufacturing sector responds to the call for ventilators
- Snow Business
- A Bright Future for Solar Energy
- Patenting Inventions In Space
- DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed
- The limits of dictionaries in the interpretation of patent claims
- EPO study gives evidence for fourth industrial revolution
- Neural machine translation for patent documents
- Coins and cloaking devices – just another day for Toyota
- The retail industry takes off
- Sailing against the wind in UK Appeal Court
- Solving mysteries with magical patents
Category: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- The implementation of the Windsor Framework brings changes to SPCs in the UK
- Advances in technology for better prostate and testicular cancer outcomes
- Advances In Technology For Better Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
- Transferable Intellectual Property: How Foundational IP in Telemedicine for Diabetes Treatment is Shaping Care for Other Conditions
- World Menopause Day 2024
- 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners Announced
- Patenting the processing of medical data – and lessons of T 1741/22 applicable to other fields
- Trends in patents and innovation against cancer
- Gilead Sciences v NuCana: Lessons for parallel UK and EPO proceedings
- Innovation in contraception – time to birth some new ideas?
- World Menopause Day 2023: A brief overview of innovation within the menopause space
- The future of glucose monitoring
- The Windsor Framework proposal to simplify obtaining SPCs from the UK IPO
- DRUGS VS MEDICAL DEVICES – Imbalances in European IP protection
- Digital Health: IP at the interface of healthcare and digital technology
- Wired Health 2022 – Women’s Health Tech Takes Centre Stage
- The Unitary Patent and UPC – What will it mean for the pharmaceutical sector?
- Patent Protection for COVID-19-related Innovations
- International Women’s Day – Female scientists tackling the pandemic
- International Women’s Day – MIND THE GAP: Closing the gender gaps in life sciences patenting
- RADIOTHERAPY: The Patent Landscape
- The Plausibility Saga Continues: Post-filed evidence at the EPO
- The Drug Exclusivity Landscape in Europe
- Brazil, it’s just like watching Brazil
- Patenting MedTech Simulations
- COVID-19 and the Rapid Rise of Genetic Sequencing
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs): Could the EU/UK trade deal have an impact on future SPC terms in Europe?
- China’s new patent law – important changes for the pharmaceutical sector
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs): How will the border solution between Ireland & Northern Ireland affect SPCs post-Brexit?
- Regeneron v Kymab – Principles capable of general application
- Seeing Article 3(d) with 2020 vision – revisited
- Regeneron v Kymab – Sufficiency explained through transgenic mice and teleporters
- The End of (Interrupted) Days is Nigh
- The slow death of Neurim – will SPCs for new indications soon be a thing of the past?
- Interpreting Article 3(a) of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) regulation with respect to combination products
- A fight against time: Coronavirus vs Biotechnology
- Artificial intelligence and antibiotics: overcoming excluded subject-matter hurdles
- A Whistlestop Guide to SPCs
- Seeing Article 3(d) with 2020 vision
- Option is a failure with combination SPCs
- What does the US-China trade deal mean for pharmaceutical patent holders?
- Patents are only part of the pharma picture
- Antibodies at the European Patent Office
- Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Manufacturing Waiver – Article 5 goes epic
- Third time lucky? EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal referred issue of plant patentability again
- Lost in translation: Are animal models predictive of a treatment effect?
- Substance or device – a distinction without a difference?
- Plausibility and non-working embodiments
- US claim construction at the English High Court – Chugai Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd v UCB & Celltech
- Is there a high chance of US and UK courts grappling with medicinal cannabis patents?
- CJEU rules that mutated organisms are covered by the GMO Directive
- Kymouse’s stay of execution
- Regeneron v Kymab – Part 1: Sufficiency
- Regeneron v Kymab – Part II: Interpretation and Infringement
- Validation of European Patents for Cambodia
- Formally granted marketing authorisation required for SPC applications
- “Obvious to try” and clinical trials: Actavis v ICOS
- New pills instead of windmills – European Medicine Agency to relocate to Amsterdam
- You’ll have to do better than that! An update on plausibility at the EPO
- CRISPR – an update
- Significant EPO rule change affects patentability of plants and animals
- New uses for old drugs – where’s the patent protection?
- US CRISPR interference battle won by the Broad Institute
Category: Branding & Design
- Behind the scenes: TikTok’s strategy for enforcing intellectual property rights
- TikTok: Can users buy genuine designer goods?
- Fashion fakes and TikTok trends: protecting products in an online age
- Bottle Opener – Registered UK Design Invalidation Decision
- Tesco facing Clubcard rebrand after Court of Appeal decision
- From Catwalk to Courtroom: Stripes on Trial at the EUIPO
- Stitching Together Success: Intellectual Property Considerations for the Fashion Industry
- Prada’s triangle and their trade mark applications
- Protecting the Vegan Lifestyle – Reflections on the Trade Mark Landscape
- Spezi: a sparkling reminder of the consequences of coexistence agreements
- Trade marks for plant-based alternatives – will we see objections?
- EA Sports & FIFA: It’s No Longer in the Name
- easyGroup Limited is suing band Easy Life over name use
- Success for Hermes in the MetaBirkin case – clarity for brands in the Metaverse?
- A UK Address for Service is now required in opposition and cancellation proceedings
- TRADE MARK TPN 2/2023: UK Address for Service now needed in inter partes proceedings
- Trade Marks, NFTs and the Metaverse: how to classify correctly?
- Rihanna’s Instagramming activities cause Puma an IP headache
- Lidl in chocolate bunny meltdown
- The End of an Era
- And 12 points goes to…
- How did The All England Lawn Tennis Club secure a trade mark for its signature colours?
- Gold Standard trade mark practice for the Platinum Jubilee
- Moon Boots
- 2021 – Bumper Year for IP
- China joins the Hague System
- (Plastic) Free Refills! – The Future of Shopping?
- London Fashion Week – considerations for Designers and disclosure of their designs
- FINAL CALL to claim an EU filing date on UK cases
- Nike, Puma and the issue of ‘FOOTWARE’
- Gin, caterpillars and copycat products
- IT’S LIKE MILK BUT MADE FOR HUMANS – Guidance from the General Court on registering slogans as trade marks
- The Devil wears trainers
- Karen Millen selling sex toys, Louis Vuitton opens a café and restaurant – as fashion brands diversify into new areas, what does this mean for their IP?
- A new EPO/EUIPO report highlights the commercial benefits of owning IP Rights to companies
- UKIPO Publishes Guidance on Protecting IP Rights on E-Commerce Stores
- Brexit one month in
- NFL Seek Touchdown in Trade Mark Proceedings with XFL over Houston Roughnecks Logos
- Glaxo’s EU push on purple halted
- Systematic arrangement of colour combinations transported to the CJEU
- The New UKIPO Address For Service Rules
- Sometimes even a smile won’t save you…
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- OFF-WHITE wins its appeal at the General Court to register the OFF-WHITE black and white logo trade mark
- Manchester United sues the producers of Football Manager® for trade mark infringement
- A second scoop of Mr Whippy
- Brighton and Hove Albion FC apply to register the ALBION trade mark
- Will digital be the new norm for fashion brands following Covid-19 pandemic & how will this impact designers’ right to Community unregistered design protection?
- New UK trade mark applications for BLACK LIVES MATTER and I CAN’T BREATHE spark outrage – and they have now been withdrawn
- EUTM Registration Cancelled on Grounds of Bad Faith
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- EUIPO aiming for common practice on examination of 3D trade marks – a new practice note with effect from July 2020
- What was the “source of action” for Harry and Meghan’s latest trade mark filings?
- Who’s the Boss?
- Check mate for check mark
- CJEU answers UK reference arising from the UK High Court litigation between Sky and SkyKick on issues relating to bad faith and validity
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Royals and Trade Marks in the Press
- More countries join the Hague System
- I was gonna register a trade mark, but I got high……
- “Possibly the least poetic reason to ever make some art” – Banksy and the Gross Domestic Product Store
- If the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain – does that demonstrate genuine rain in the EU?
- Win-Win Lose
- How has the Design of the iPhone 11 been Protected in Europe?
- Backlash against Backcountry.com
- Getting the scoop on Mr Whippy
- The shape of things to come… or perhaps not
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Guide to Invalidating a Registered Community Design
- What’s in a Name… Liverpool FC fails to score LIVERPOOL in the trade mark world
- Hague System Applications Are Becoming More Popular
- It’s Certifiably Good. Protecting the Planet but can you Protect your Mark?
- Can we build it? Yes, we can! (But it may be too long…..)
- What’s in a Name?
- IRONMAN triathletes really are IRON MAN superheroes
- Game of Stones
- Lorraine Kelly is a brand, so should she have trade mark protection?
- Unhappy Valentine for Bayer
- Not So Supreme…
- Roses are red, violets are blue, I wrote a blog on BUTLERS IN THE BUFF specially for you
- What do they call a ‘Big Mac’ in Europe?
- Never mind the Brexit – here comes the EU Trade Mark Directive!
- UK rights can still be enforced in EU, in spite of the triggering of Brexit
- CASE OF THE DAY: Leicester City Football Club 1 – 0 Leeds City Football Club
- An EU (SPINNING) class in trade marks becoming generic terms…
- Rangers secure trade mark RFC. No, they don’t mean ‘rugby football club’…
- More to clever packaging than just looks
- Out with the old and in with not so new
- UKIPO confirms that the UK will protect all existing EU trade marks and registered Community designs when the country leaves the EU
- Louboutin’s infamous red sole trade mark not considered to fall within the shape exclusions for trade mark protection
- Court of Appeal sounds out the CJEU on the question of infringement jurisdiction
- The Meghan Markle & Friends Effect
- Celebrity tattoo artist’s prickly reaction to the name of a nearby cactus shop
- Nestlé Cannot Catch a Break
- Sky v SkyKick: Sky Plc’s claim for trade mark infringement is ‘kicked’ into the long grass
- Fashion Week brings a bit of fun with brand owners’ trade marks
- ‘Haters Gonna Hate’ – Taylor Swift shakes off copyright infringement claim
- Louboutin’s infamous red sole is potentially an invalid trade mark in Europe – just out is a second AG opinion
- ALEXANDER the not-so-great
- Good news for Coca-Cola trade marks in the EU
- Meghan Markle to boost the brand value of the British Monarchy?
- Consumers not in the Knowledge – the shape of the London Taxi not distinctive enough to be a trade mark
- New European Union Certification Marks
- The curse of being too catchy
- The “Knead” for Trade Mark protection!
- Scam Wars – A New Hope? Well, maybe…
- Thought about selling or buying IP at an auction?
- Oh, gimme a break!
- Positioning your brand on the trade marks register
Category: Brexit
- Brexit & IP: The Concise Version
- Brexit & IP: Not too much, not too little
- Brexit & IP: Everything you have ever wanted to know about Brexit
- Unitary Patent Project Update
- I guess this is goodbye, old pals?
- UK and EU Intellectual Property post-Brexit:
- What has happened to the UPC?
- Brexit and CPVRs
- Brexit and SPCs
- Deal Or No Deal – Update on IP rights after Brexit
- Planning for “No Deal” – IP Rights after Brexit
- Brexit Update: With just over a year to go, the European Commission published their draft withdrawal agreement on February 28th 2018
- IP rights following Brexit – the view from the EU
- What comes first – Brexit or the Unitary Patent?
- Brexit – its effect is felt in IP filing statistics
- UKIPO filing statistics viewed through a Brexit lens
- Brexit and the Unitary Patent
- UK votes to leave the EU – what now?
Category: Broadcasting & Standards
- Technology at the service of sports events in times of a pandemic
- Unwired Planet v Huawei – with the FRAND licensing saga now concluded what have we learnt?
- The need for (data) speed
- Excluded Subject Matter: A Landmark Decision from the UK IPO
- Introducing the FRAND injunction: not just any old injunction
- Unwired Planet v Huawei – a FRAND in sight: licensing guidance from the UK court
- Patenting the quantum realm
- Fine tuning protection of IP in professional audio
- Space: intellectual property’s final frontier
Category: Chemistry & Materials
- Sustainable Style #6: Ethical knitwear and wool alternatives
- UK Renewable Fuel Statistics: a brief report
- International Women’s Day – Celebrating innovation in Chemistry and Materials Science
- Patent Trends in Plastic Recycling and Alternative Plastics
- Sustainability and IP: The Rise of Dairy Alternatives
- Sustainability and IP: The Growth of Meat Alternatives
- Hydrogen storage – an important component of the “road to net zero”
- From carbon capture to yoga pants
- Innovations for a Sustainable Lifestyle – London Climate Action Week 30 June 2021
- Parameters at the EPO – avoiding traps for the unwary
- Technology and Innovation on the Path to Net Zero
- Liquid-Air Energy Storage – A cool future for energy storage?
- Are you going round in circles? You should be.
- Recycling Li-ion Batteries – The Next Challenge for Battery Innovation?
- A new funding competition for projects on sustainable plastic solutions
- Australian engineers develop “British weather-proof” solar cells
- Veganuary and IP – Protecting Plant-based “Meat”
- Sustainability and IP – If Carlsberg made Sustainable Packaging…
- Sports Technology and the Fastest-ever Marathon
- Science hits the catwalk
- The inventions keeping plastics off the menu
- Carbon Dioxide Removal: The Future of the Fight Against Climate Change?
- International Year of the Periodic Table – can a chemical element be patented?
- The last straw, what next?
- Choco-tech: A Christmas Selection Box
- Edible insects: Branding and Innovation
- World Food Day! Patentable foods: The “Impossible” and the eggless
- Court of Appeal grapples with novelty of overlapping ranges in Jushi v OCV
- Auf Wiedersehen, PET!
- Internet of Things – Anticipated Patenting Trends in Europe
- Patenting the end of plastic pollution
- Winter Olympics 2018: turbulence over Team GB skeleton suits
Category: Cleantech & Energy
- Year in Review: The Transition to a Cleaner, Greener Energy Future
- Digitalisation #4: Smart grid – a blind spot?
- Digitalisation #3 – Illuminating where Future Innovation may lie in Solar Power Generation
- Digitalisation #2 – Generative AI and Renewable Energy
- Digitalisation #1 – Safeguarding the Future: The Critical Role of Cybersecurity in the Energy Transition
- Talk IP with R&G: Harnessing Wind – Patent Trends in Renewable Energy
- Powering Tomorrow: Intellectual Property & Nuclear in the Age of Net Zero series round up
- Powering Tomorrow #4: Nothing new under the sun – a history of nuclear innovations
- Powering Tomorrow #3: Modular reactors mark renaissance for nuclear patent filings
- Powering Tomorrow #2: Powering Towards the Fusion Era
- Powering Tomorrow #1: Nuclear’s Behind-the-Scenes Influence
- Sustainable Future: Exploring innovations in wind technology for the energy transition and circular economy
- Join us for the launch of R&G’s Sustainability Index Report for London Climate Action Week 2023
- Embrace technological innovation to combat climate change
- Energy Security Day: a sign of innovations to come?
- Global wind power output and patent filing trends
- A Second Wind – How Wind Turbines Are Going Circular
- Innovation in Green Hydrogen
- Earthshot Prize: 2022 Finalists Announced
- Renewable Energy Oversupply and Storage
- London Climate Action Week: Is the Intellectual Property System doing enough to support innovators in Net Zero and Green Tech?
- One Man’s Household Trash is Another Man’s Treasure
- Sustainable Future II: Exploring innovations for the Energy Transition and a Circular Economy
- Register here for our online panel discussion in support of London Climate Action Week
- Artificial Intelligence Patent Applications Seeking To Combat Climate Change
- London Climate Action Week: Register here for our online panel discussion.
- Queen’s Speech outlines new Energy Bill for the UK
- COP26: innovation remain central to achieving a clean energy future
- There’s nothing new under the sun – a brief look at historical climate change patents – Part 2: Wind Turbines
- The Role of Geothermal in the Green Energy Mix
- UKIPO Green Channel
- Innovation and investment a core message ahead of COP26
- EARTHSHOT PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
- Innovation trends in clean energy technology – an insight from the EPO’s patent report
- The Future of Renewable Energy – Tracking the Patent Trends
- Patenting Simulations in the Renewable Energy Sector
- £92 million allocated to funding energy storage, floating wind, and sustainable biomass production in the UK
- The Future of Renewable Energy – Tracking the Patent Trends
- The Future of Wind Energy – Insights from Patent Filing Trends
- (Artificially) Intelligent Patent Searching?
- How private is your product testing, and when should you file for a patent?
- Britain coals it a day! – Great Britain goes two whole months without coal
- A new funding competition on industrial energy transformation
- UK Sustainable Innovation Fund
- Smart Homes: protecting AI and IoT inventions at the European Patent Office
- World IP Day 2020 – Innovate for a Green Future
- Vertical axis wind turbines – Good enough to blow away the competition?
- Digest Of UK Energy Statistics 2019 – Renewables provide a third of UK electricity generation
- Next Generation technologies for a Low Carbon Future
- Global Offshore Wind 2019
- Wind and solar will provide 50% of global power by 2050, but this may still not be enough to meet the 2 degree climate change target.
- Are renewable energies catching up?
- Climate Change: is technology rising to the challenge?
- IP Protection in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Patenting activity and the price of oil
Category: Computers & Software
- UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2024
- Does the patent literature reflect commercialised products?
- Emotional Perception AI Ltd – Patents Court of Appeal
- The Rise of ChatGPT: Considerations for the Patent Drafting Process
- Quantum Supremacy: The Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Era and Beyond
- Quantum Simulation at the EPO
- Patentability of AI Chatbots in Germany
- National Quantum Strategy
- Quantum Computing at the EPO
- T 0702/20: Mitsubishi Denki – “Sparsely Connected Neural network”: A recent decision from the EPO Technical Board of Appeal illustrates the difficulties faced by AI innovators to obtain patents for Core AI.
- “CodeFest” – A Unique Green Plastics Initiative
- Machine learning in life sciences – a trend that is here to stay?
- Could machines be closer to taking over the world (of patent translations) than we thought they would ever be?
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the NHS
- AI at the UKIPO: Results from UKIPO consultation
- Artificial intelligence, insufficiency and inventive step: detailed disclosure needed at the EPO
- Supply Chain 4.0 – How Wireless Communications is at the Centre of Supply Chain Digitisation
- What the Enlarged Board’s decision in G1/19 means for patenting computer simulations in Europe
- High Court considers patentability of AI technology in the UK
- G1/19 – Enlarged Board Decides on Patentability of Computer Simulations in Europe
- Patents in Wearable Tech
- Spot-ify the difference – Patents and AI in the Music Industry?
- Will I be successful in obtaining a patent for my AI invention?
- The EUIPO is now a member of the WIPO Digital Access Service
- Commercially useful patents for the Internet of Things
- Call for views on the future of artificial intelligence and the UK IP framework
- A primer on patenting artificial intelligence in Europe
- Breaking News – Update on G 1/19 Simulation Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal
- WIPO PROOF: A new service to securely timestamp your digital assets
- Public availability at confidential technical standards committees
- The Rise of Ocado: An Intellectual Property Success Story
- Move over Medical
- British Science Week – what computers can learn from children
- VAR: is technology ruining ‘the beautiful game’?
- Can AI be designated as an inventor on a European Patent Application?
- UK IPO Approach to AI Related Patent Applications
- EPO Berlin office to become centre of expertise on Artificial Intelligence
- Quantum Supremacy
- UK IPO Report on Artificial Intelligence Innovation – Aye Aye AI!
- UK IPO Excluded Subject matter & Hitachi: Saved by the bell.
- Singapore Offers Fast Track Patent Grant Process for AI inventions
- Decisions of the UK IPO relating to Computer Software and Excluded Subject Matter
- Can you patent a computer-implemented simulation in Europe?
- EPO Patenting Blockchain Conference, 4 December 2018
- 2018 Changes to the EPO’s Guidelines for Examination
- Between The (Spread) Sheets – Patentability of UIs in the US
- Future innovation in Fintech
- Augmented reality colliding with sport: a win-win for spectators and participants
- Software and business method patents in China
- A broad base to the drive for device integration
Category: Consumer Products & Manufacturing
- The Sustainable Café #2: Hot beverages
- Insights into Metallic Additive Manufacturing
- Patents Beyond Silicon: the Rise of Silicon Carbide
- Polar Bears or Sea Turtles? The uncomfortable conflicts at the heart of the sustainability movement
- Manufacturing in microgravity – a patent perspective
- The Dior Saddle Bag
- Tool Sheds – Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Looking for a Dragon? Get your IP in order
- International Women’s Day – Thinking Outside the (Pizza) Box
- How sustainable is your coffee habit?
- For the Sneakerheads – eBay launches new authentication scheme for trainers
- What can you do when your product listing has been removed under Amazon’s IP policy?
- Responsible Innovation
- Amazon.com is Trialling a New Procedure to Tackle Patent Infringement
- Patenting the fidget spinner
Category: Designs
- EU Adopt New Design Law Reforms – changing EUIPO practice and, on implementation, EU Member States
- Pagani’s Iconic Exhausts Recognised as a Distinctive Trade Mark by the Board of Appeal
- Women and IP
- The General Court find meaning in MILEY CYRUS
- Covid-19 crisis cited as basis for rise in domain name disputes
- New IPO report – How different UK industries use IP rights
- 2020 MacRobert Award Winner Announced – JCB’s Electric Digger
- Celebrating outstanding British innovation – 2020 MacRobert Award finalists announced
- Some IP subsidies and rewards in China will soon be abolished
- Trends in UK IP analysed
Category: Eco & Sustainability
- The Sustainable Café #4: Desserts
- Sustainable Style #5: Fur, Feathers, Fashion: Is it sustainable?
- Sustainable Innovation Report 2024
- Global Wind Day 2024
- Earth Day 2024: Think Planet over Plastic
- Earth Day 2024 – Planet vs. Plastics and the Global Plastics Treaty
- Talk IP with R&G: Sustainability & biodiversity with Alison Benjamin from Urban Bees
- Earthshot Prize Winners Announced
- Bee of the month – Furrow Bee (Lasioglossum)
- Single Use Plastics Ban – Rubber Bullet or Wet Paper Bag?
- Bee of the month – Ivy Bee (Colletes Hederae)
- Bee of the month – Pantaloon Bee (Dayspoda Hirtipes)
- Bee of the month – Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile centuncularis)
- Bee of the month – Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum)
- Bee of the month – Flavous nomad bee (Nomada Flava)
- Bee of the month – Red Mason Bee (Osmia Bicornis)
- Sort It Out! – The Messy World of Recycling
- Bad Inventions – An Environmental Warning From History
- Innovations for a Sustainable Lifestyle
- EPO Recognises Sustainable Innovation
- International Women’s Day 2021
- Green Channel Alternatives
Category: Electronic & Electrical Devices
- More guidance from EPO on sufficiency requirements for AI patent applications
- Superconducting Motors in the Aerospace Sector
- Successful European Qualifying Examination (EQE) results for Reddie & Grose
- EPO examiners now raising insufficiency objections to AI inventions
- An Update on AI Inventions at the UKIPO
- The Supreme Court puts the question of AI owned inventions to rest – at least for now
- Machine learning controlling the skies – Decision T0270/20 of the Technical Board of Appeal (EP Application 17382762.7 – The Boeing Company – 19 June 2023)
- Cross border patent infringement of telecommunication and software patents in Germany
- The Rise of Telemedicine Technology
- EPO now accepts Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES) on assignments and licences
- Fold the phone… flexible devices?
- Who is the notional businessman and does it matter?
Category: Featured News
- Graduate Trainee Reflections 2024
- UPC’s production of evidence – a dilemma for the plaintiff?
- Public Prior Use Attacks In EPO Oppositions
- UPC’s NanoString Decision – Inventive step considerations with no strings attached?
- The Sustainable Café #3: Full English Breakfast
- Reddie & Grose attorneys named as Rising Stars in Managing IP 2024
- An ‘easy’ victory? For now.
- The Sustainable Café #1: Amuse-bouche
- Romania Joins the UPC
- The year of Ozempic: An IP take
- Going viral: When to think legal
- UKIPO launches new SME financial support scheme, IP Advance
- Japanese National Space Law: Leading The Way
- Sustainable Style #4: Brands in sustainable fashion
- Insights into Prostheses
- Sustainable Style #3: Leather Alternatives
- Talk IP with R&G: Trade Marks & Sport: A perfect match?
- Sustainable Style #2: Designing a sustainable future for the fashion industry
- Sustainable Style #1: Materials, fashion and a circular economy
- Romania to join the Unitary Patent system – EPO provides delay mechanism for Unitary Patent registration
- Reddie & Grose ranked in IAM Patent 1000
- Financial Times Special Report – Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2024
- Reddie & Grose proudly sponsors UKBAA’s Best Investment in Sustainable Innovation award
- The Unified Patent Court One Year On – A Deeper Dive
- The pains and perils of DRY JANUARY
- The Unified Patent Court: Five Thoughts on the First Year
- The disclosure in the margin
- London Climate Action Week Reception 2024
- Exam success for CIPA paralegal course
- Talk IP with R&G: FemTech in Focus – Time to level the playing field
- Reddie & Grose Reveals New Chairman Together with a Raft of Senior Promotions
- Combating Counterfeits: the Role of Influencers
- Acceleration of Oppositions for UPC
- Proudly presenting our values
- The UK Supreme Court holds that Amazon’s US site does target UK consumers
- International Women’s Day 2024
- Meet with Reddie & Grose at INTA 2024
- Small but Mighty: Victory for L V Bespoke signals success in defending against a brand claiming reputation
- Chanel wins case against What Goes Around Comes Around
- International Day of Women & Girls in Science 2024
- Juve Patent UK Rankings 2024: Reddie & Grose recognised as a leading firm in patent filing
- Reddie & Grose announces new hire Drew Rudhall
- Talk IP with R&G: Leveraging the Unified Patent Court
- G 1/22 and G 2/22: The EPO Enlarged Board Appeal Decision on entitlement to claim priority
- Activity at the Unified Patent Court – a review of pending actions and trends
- Talk IP with R&G: Navigating patents, trade marks and designs
- To appeal, or not to appeal, that is the question
- UPC: Provisional injunctions – Presumption in favour of validity
- Black History Month: Innovators In STEM
- More recognition in MIP IP Stars 2023
- Reddie & Grose recommended by Legal 500
- National Inclusion Week: 25 September – 01 October 2023
- Summer of IP Taster Day – Wednesday 23 August 2023
- Outer Space, the High Seas and the Flags of Convenience Problem
- Successful exam results for Reddie & Grose
- Championing Female Innovators – How Do We Embrace Equity?
- IP Careers morning with The Switch and Mulberry Stepney Green
- Languages of Proceedings before the Unified Patent Court
- Third Party Observations at the EPO
- The UK Government is Going Nuclear
- First insights into the UPC patent litigation in Europe
- Another successful year of European Qualifying Examination (EQE) results for Reddie & Grose
- Leveraging the UPC panel discussion
- Protective letters before the UPC
- BREAKING NEWS: The UPC Enters Into Force Today, 1 June 2023
- Litigation before the UPC – what to expect
- The Wagatha Christie saga continues: Rebekah Vardy registers her nemesis’ nickname
- Guidelines for Determining the Value of an Action before the UPC Published
- Reddie & Grose Appoints Vanessa King as IP Operations Director
- Unified Patent Court – Litigation Services
- Technical Board of Appeal: Video Conference Proceedings are Equivalent to In-person Proceedings
- Milan to join Paris and Munich as city hosting a third UPC Central Division branch
- SIGN UP NOW: Leveraging the unified patent court – a sector wide panel discussion
- Limited screen time for VICO EPO opposition hearings – a strategic issue?
- UK joins the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership)
- Happy 75th Birthday, WHO!
- Reddie & Grose promotes three attorneys to Senior Associate
- German Patent Office Patent Statistics
- The Enlarged Board of Appeal has now issued its preliminary opinion for the referrals G1/22 and G2/22
- Relying on post-filed data when arguing inventive step before the EPO?
- Digital Health Rewired
- Should I opt out published European patent applications at the same time as opting out my granted patents?
- Bee of the month – Orange-Tailed Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa)
- EPO grants tenth petition for review
- National Careers Week 2023
- Embracing Equity on International Women’s Day
- International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023
- Industrial Revelations – Looking Beyond Brunel on International Women’s Day
- BREAKING – UPC SUNRISE PERIOD BEGINS TODAY, 1 MARCH 2023
- Reddie and Grose announces UPC litigation services
- Going green for European Qualifying Examination (EQE) training
- Reddie & Grose Appoints Ann-Charlotte Binnberg as Business Development & Marketing Director
- BREAKING UPC NEWS: Germany ratified UPC agreement – UPC in operation: 1 June 2023
- Bee of the month – Hairy Footed Flower Bee (Anthophora Plumipes)
- Reddie & Grose partners with Urban Bees
- Reddie & Grose receives ISO 14001 accreditation
- Reddie & Grose Announces New Partner Hire in Munich
- Reddie & Grose Appoints Dr Yumiko Kato
- Start of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Sunrise Period delayed by 2 months
- EPO announces start date for Unitary patent transitional measures as 1 January 2023
- Intervening in EPO opposition proceedings
- Chambers & Partners 2023 Legal Guide: Reddie & Grose Partners Recognised as ‘Notable Practitioners’
- Louis Vuitton loses acquired distinctiveness battle
- Judges for the Unified Patent Court (UPC) appointed
- Reopening the debate in EPO oral proceedings?
- Description Amendments: A Comparison of Recent EPO Case Law
- Petitions for Review – delaying the inevitable?
- UPC expected to open its doors on 1 April 2023
- Opposition Strategy: Added subject matter & intermediate generalisation
- Reddie & Grose attorneys named as Rising Stars in Managing IP
- Top up searches beginning at the EPO ahead of the UPC
- The UK IPO has now published its findings on its Standard Essential Patents Call for Views
- Next European nation to join the EPO
- Comparison of Central Revocation Actions before the Unified Patent Court & Oppositions before the EPO – and why you may wish to use both
- Videoconference at the UPC
- Unified Patent Court to start in 2023
- Clean sweep of European Qualifying Examination (EQE) results for Reddie & Grose
- Getting your facts straight at the EPO
- UK Patent Box regime more beneficial than ever for businesses in view of impending corporation tax hikes
- Register here: An introduction to The European Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court
- Register here: An introduction to The European Unitary Patent & Unified Patent Court
- Mental Health Awareness Week: The technological advances that help to improve mental health
- Introduction to Trade Marks; Should you worry about them?
- With VICO looking like it’s here to stay, is it time for the EPO to take case management more seriously?
- Use It Or (Maybe) Lose It: Opting Out Of The UPC
- UK-Qualified European Patent Attorneys can Represent Clients at the UPC
- Raft of promotions at Reddie & Grose
- Will a Unitary Patent be cost effective for me/my organisation in Europe?
- Unitary Supplementary Protection Certificates – a new IP right?
- International Women’s Day – Women in Innovation
- Financial Times Special Report – Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2021
- Standard Essential Patients?
- Questions of Priority for the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal
- Early Request for a Unitary Patent at the EPO
- Delaying Grant of a European Patent to obtain a Unitary Patent
- Know your limits: Don’t delay in enforcing your Community plant variety rights
- Could the first European Unitary Patent issue in 2023?
- EPO Enlarged Board Decision G1/21 – video conferencing vs the gold standard
- Rising Stars
- The Digital Healthcare Revolution: Computational Modelling
- “IP Access” fund for SMEs and Innovative Businesses
- G1/21 – EPO’s Enlarged Board Okays ViCo Without Consent During Pandemic
- G1/21 (ViCo): Round Two of Oral Proceedings and a Conclusion of Sorts
- The EPO decides that double-patenting is a ground for refusal in G4/19
- Losing a MONOPOLY – bad faith trade mark re-filing in the EU
- MIP IP Stars 2021
- Anonymous oppositions – staying undercover at the European Patent Office
- BREAKING NEWS – G1/21 – Still Waiting for an Answer
- G1/21 – ViCo Enlarged Board changes composition to avoid perception of partiality
- One rule for one, one for another – patent term of pharmaceutical patents truncated in Brazil
- “One IPO” Transformation
- 2020 in Review – Filing Trends at the EPO
- Breaking news: Accelerated Processing for G1/21 Enlarged Board Referral – Oral Proceedings in May 2021
- Innovation Prevails: Record International Application Filings in 2020
- Single Question Referred to Enlarged Board on Video Conference Oral Proceedings
- New Referral to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal – Is It Legal To Hold Oral Proceedings by Video?
- “Means Plus Function” Language and Global Patent Specifications
- ViCo by default – Oral Proceedings by Videoconference at the EPO
- A Boost for Fintech Patents in the UK
- UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) introduces temporary fee reductions
- Promoting UK innovation in a post Covid world
- Sources of Funding for Innovative Companies in the UK
- European and UK Patent Office Responses to Coronavirus – and Service as Normal at Reddie & Grose
- A new funding competition to encourage UK business-led innovation in response to a global pandemic
- The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement does NOT comply with German law
- 3.3 million patent applications were filed in 2018
- EPO announces official fee increase
- Revisions to the Rules of Procedure of the EPO Boards of Appeal
- READY… OR MAYBE NOT QUITE YET?
- Unleash Innovation – will the government have a positive innovation strategy post-Friday 13th?
- Update on the Patent Box
- European Patent Office and China National Intellectual Property Administration announce enhanced PCT cooperation
- The Internet of Medical Things: Revolutionising Healthcare
- European patents help SMEs commercialise high-potential inventions, new study shows
- Too Big to Pay? Supreme Court say: “No Way!”
- Electroceuticals: body hacks that aren’t for quacks
- SMEs using intellectual property rights are more likely to achieve high growth
- Robin Ellis joins Reddie & Grose Munich office
- Yearly Review of the Patent Cooperation Treaty
- IP Stars 2019/20
- IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2019
- EPO boards of appeal annual report 2018
- Will the EPO introduce deferred examination?
- New Partner promotion
- Oral proceedings in Haar – it’s no laughing matter
- WTR1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2019
- Reddie & Grose third annual open day for trainee examiners from the UK Intellectual Property Office
- Breaking: New referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on double-patenting
- Purity can be unconventional, a new position for the EPO boards of appeal (T 1085/13)
- Is it time to rethink the patent drawing requirements?
- Brexit & IP: The Concise Version
- Brexit & IP: Not too much, not too little
- Brexit & IP: Everything you have ever wanted to know about Brexit
- The intractable question of “inadmissible” or “late filed” appeals – G1/18
- Common patent strategy considerations for startups
- No pain, no gain: Plausibility in Warner-Lambert v Actavis
- BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court unanimously dismisses Warner-Lambert’s painful Lyrica appeal
- Legal 500 – Tier 1 for patents
- Lord Kitchin applies the “markedly different” infringement approach in Actavis v Eli Lilly in Icescape v Ice-world
- EPO Guidelines for Examination 2018
- Funding for Deep Technology: Interview with Paul Loustalan
- Rising Stars
- New guidelines from the EPO
- One year later, how has Actavis v Eli Lilly impacted on patent scope in the UK?
- Unbound London
- IP Stars
- The UK Ratifies the UPC
- Celebrating female inventors on World IP Day!
- MBL seminar on Conducting Effective IP Due Diligence
- China drives another record year for applications at WIPO
- Reddie & Grose LLP appoints Alice Findlay as Partnership Chairman and promotes Paul Loustalan to Partner
- Quality vs quantity at the European Patent Office
- Some rules may be about to change, but is this going to change the game?
- Mind The Gap! – How far are we from gender parity amongst Patent Inventors?
- Visit from UK IPO and JPO examiners
- Reddie & Grose opens office in Munich
- UK IPO fee changes from 6 April 2018
- The changing landscape of US Innovation
- Applying Actavis v Eli Lilly
- Best mode – an update
- New Patent Prosecution Highway pilot programme launched
- Why you should pay your PCT fees: lessons learned from the EPO Board of Appeal decision J 19/16
- EPO Guidelines for Examination 2017 – a review of the changes
- UK IPO official patent fees to be increased
- 2017 Trainee intake
- T 1983/14: The inescapable trap, but not as we know it
- Happy 400th birthday, GB1!
- UK IPO consultation on increasing official patent fees
- The EPO publishes the first Unitary Patent Guide
- UK Supreme Court gives landmark decision on key infringement issues
- Quality service from the EPO?
- UPC delayed further
- Removing unwanted features from a patent claim – is the EPO getting stricter?
- Mergers & acquisitions: IP due diligence
- Commencement of UPC is delayed
- Record number of European patents granted, announces EPO
- A new UK unjustified threats regime – what does it mean for IP owners?
- Will the UK General Election affect the Unified Patent Court timetable?
- Examination success for R&G patents team
- Make priority your first concern
- Opting out of the Unified Patent Court
- Fun with figures from the EPO Boards of Appeal
- Twelve of thirteen (or is it fourteen) – Italy ratifies the UPC
- Innocuous priority
- China patent applications top one million a year
- A pointer on poisonous priority?
- Good news for patent applicants – validation in Europe just got cheaper
- Interpreting the EPC – a worrying development?
- Computer implemented inventions in the US – encouraging news on protection
- Nestlé reinvents sugar
- Changes to the EPO Guidelines for Examination
- Food for thought – patents protecting food-related inventions
- A Unitary Patent to be granted in 2017? Or perhaps not!
- Where’s your supporting data? Plausibility at the EPO
- Patent Box: An update
- Reddie & Grose retains top tier ranking in Chambers UK
- Dragons in the East
- The rise of the kite patent
- More musings on patentability in the United States McRo v Bandai
- Milan challenges London for its Unified Patent Court location
- Meet our latest UK Trade Mark Attorney
Category: Financial Services & Business Methods
Category: Innovation Protection Strategy
- Funding for Deep Technology
- Patent Box in the mainstream press
- When looking in from the outside, the world of IP can appear confusing
- UK Patent Box – part of your business strategy?
- Claim of thrones
- Patent Box: what are the proposed changes?
- Tom Sharman offers IP masterclass in professional engineering
- The economics of intellectual property
- Patent Box? Just call nein nein nein
- Jan Vleck & William Ponder ask if IP fits in your business plan
- Investing in the intangible
- UK Patent Box news
- UK Patent Box – taxing times?
- Business innovation masterclass for SMEs
- The UKIPO’s swift search and examination of patent applications
- Patent box: changing the attitude of UK business towards IP?
- 5 reasons to start virtual patent marking today
- Should you open the patent box? – tax benefits for innovation and patenting
Category: IP & Legal Updates
- UK intellectual property office patents rules and design fees changes 2016
- What’s your priority?
- BASCOM vs AT&T – Patent eligibility vs Patentability
- Correct me if I’m wrong but…
- The European front of the CRISPR patent war
- Ambush marketing in the Olympics and rule 40 – does it really deter big brand owners?
- Extra copyright protection for designers
- A Japanese court decision suggests a patent with extended term may cover equivalent products
- When competitors threaten to infringe your patent, where do you draw the line?
- The EPO tackles its backlog
- Does IP provide a clue to team GB’s cycling dominance?
- Accelerated examination of US patent applications relating to cancer immunotherapy
- Will Ericsson’s master sale agreement to unwired planet come unstuck?
- GM crops are a seasonal matter
- Pokémon Go into the world of patents
- Trade secrets – the EU’s controversial new directive comes into force
- The EPO introduces streamlined opposition proceedings
- Plausibility in the UK
- And on that bombshell
- Touchdown on earth for space technology
- Patenting activity in the automotive industry
- Are you getting the most out of your UK patent?
- Patent eligibility of computer implemented inventions – recent US updates
- Italy getting closer to UPC ratification – is the finish line in sight for everyone?
- Developing a cure for a myriad afflictions?
- The future for cars: hybrid, battery or fuel cell?
- A method for mildly irritating patent trolls
- Copying film clips is just not fair
- Chopping down patent thickets with declaratory relief
- Death of the omnibus claim
- Trolls, unicorns, giants and patent litigation
- The FinTech revolution: file! file! file!
- China patent filings still booming
- Lay your cards on the table
- How bright is the UK’s solar future?
- Community Registered Designs – from suitcase to court case: the return journey
- Why doesn’t my patent give me freedom to operate?
- Speeding up prosecution at the EPO
- Patent term extensions in Japan – a question of identity
- Translating IP Translator and Article 28 outside Europe
- No fees for opting out of the Unified Patent Court
- Brexit – will there be any change for patent owners if the UK leaves the EU?
- UPC update: nine down, four more to go
- How badly will the 3.5mm jack be missed?
- I recognise that shape – could it be a trade mark?
- Keeping up the PACE
- A new battle-front opens in the CRISPR patent wars – will it be the last great US interference?
- Figurative marks – the quest for clarity, consistency and certainty
- A Christmas present from the European Commission
- What next for biotech patenting in Australia?
- Calling all inventors: time to lock the garden shed?
- What has changed in the UPC regime in 2015 and what can we expect in 2016?
- None of this is real: the patentability of computer simulations in Europe
- The TMs, they are a changin’
- New FRAND developments in the UK high court
- As the PCT Direct service expands, is it time you went direct?
- Scanning for mistakes at the EPO
- Surprising benefits at the European patent office after the Alice v CLS US supreme court decision
- Poisonous priority – closer to an answer
- Off-patent drugs bill filibustered
- Off-patent drugs bill second reading
- The Unified Patent Court update: representation rights for European patent attorneys
- Battle of the (fitness) bands – the start of another patent war?
- An update on the Italian position on the Unitary Patent Package – “Meglio tardi che mai”
- Toyota goes back to the future
- Increase in number of EP validation states
- Cars – the next big thing for the tech giants?
- Outsourcing manufacture to China: reduce your risk
- Innovation harvesting: how to recognise inventions and turn them into valuable IP
- Has the court of appeal found that 0.77 is greater than 1?
- 20+ years post-TRIPS – are submarines still out there?
- Software patents and expert systems – what do you recommend?
- Three things all entrepreneurs should know about intellectual property and crowdfunding
- Shiver me timbers! Digital pirates beware…
- Changes in Japanese patent practice
- Brexit – what could this mean for intellectual property?
- Renewing the focus on renewable energy
- Unitary Patent renewal fees – all you need to know
- Sofaworks v Sofa Workshop: CTM blow cushioned by passing off in the UK
- EPO global dossier service extends remit
- Alice Corp v CLS one year on: US patents for computer implemented inventions still being granted in large numbers
- Off-patent drugs bill revived!
- Sweet success for Cadbury?
- Have Tesla Motors changed down a gear?
- Patents: no use for product-by-process claims?
- EPO annual report: Europe continues strong growth, but UK fails to make its mark
- The Unified Patent Court: fees for opting out and opting back in
- Third strike, not out for Skype
- The unitary patent and unified patent court – another hurdle cleared
- Why you should worry about time zones (if you care about patents)
- Scrabble / scramble: why they shouldn’t have gone to Specsavers
- Time to print some new 3D laws?
- EPO enlarged board says “yes” to Tomatoes and Broccoli
- G 3/14: the Enlarged Board clarifies “clarity” in opposition proceedings
- Rihanna, Bob Marley, Robin Williams: image rights protection and trade mark registration
- ASOS v ASSOS: own-name defence saves ASOS from being wrecked on the rocks
- The EPO’s enlarged board clarifies clarity in opposition proceedings
- What protection do Swiss-type second medical use claims provide?
- Grace periods – good for Europe?
- Patents: A driving force in Formula One?
- There be dragons…
- Introduction to new Japan post-grant opposition system
- Amazon: drive-by printing anyone?
- Rubik’s cube: unlocking 3D trade marks
- US & Japan join the Hague system
- #CanIRegisterMyHashtag / domain name as my trade mark?
- SIMPLY not good enough: what happens when your mark is registered in one style and used in another?
- Use of a mark – the insight provided by Specsavers
- Africa is becoming part of Europe
- Centralised limitation of European patents – any opportunity to revamp your case on appeal?
- Patentable Parthenotes
- Poisonous priority – will the Enlarged Board of Appeal allow an antidote?
- UK’s attention to training pays off at European patent exams
- Construing claims without numbers
- Unified patent update – spotlight on Spain, Malta & the UK
- Philips & Nintendo’s dispute
- Airbus reimagines flight
- Standards essential patents, the latest chapter
- PCT Direct: searching for Déjà Vu
- Unified Patent Court: an update
- ‘Our reasons…are as innumerable as the stars’
- EPO issues updated guidelines for examination
- Obtaining patents is a prize-winning pursuit
- A non-binding opinion with a sting in the tail
- Open access publishing
- Things are speeding up (and probably slowing down) at the EPO
- Orange is not the only book, old fruit…
- Protecting your Cleantech ideas and innovations – IP and your business plan
- Introduction to IP changes under the Intellectual Property Act 2014
- Electronic patent marking
- Don’t miss out on the opportunity to comment on the latest UK IPO public consultation
- Patent checking is about to become cheaper and easier
- Show me the money – what is the value of intellectual property?
- Intellectual property in biotechnology fact sheet
- Agri-tech research in the UK – a major field of growth
- Scam wars – the UK IPO fights back
- Tesla Motors opens up
- The great yoghurt debate: possessing Greek style, but lacking Greek culture?
- Apple are told they can protect its retail store layout as a trade mark in Europe
- Survey evidence in trade mark proceedings – the parrot may not be quite dead but it’s very expensive
- Alice v CLS – how the Supreme Court case impacts patent applications in practice
- The EPO and the fine art of complaining
- I scream, you scream – we all scream for…milk and milk products?
- Honky tonk utility models
- Victory for Apple, but Samsung takes a bite
- WIPO to make written opinions on patentability available for third party inspection during the international phase
- Japanese patent decisions: Apple v Samsung – the grand panel decision of the IP high court
- I disclosed my invention at a public conference yesterday, can I still get valid protection for it?
- How the EPO can leave you feeling listless – Added subject matter at the EPO resulting from selections from multiple lists
- Will the 2014 Longitude Prize winner patent their technology?
- Definitive US supreme court case on the patentability of business methods
- Law Commission advises reform of groundless threats provisions
- Black and white marks creating grey all over – the new OHIM practice on black and white marks
- Compensation of employees for inventions continues to be an uphill struggle
- The CJEU gives BIMBOs the cold shoulder
- Unified patent court – Sweden ratifies, Denmark referendum gives the go ahead
- Changes to Japanese patent law – a new opposition system
- Post-grant central limitation in the EPO – a useful tool or a damp squib?
- The Court of Appeal applies the brakes on added matter
- The EPC and the right to be heard
- Changes to New Zealand patent law
- China – a new specialised IP court?
- Robotics: patent trends and future directions
- Community Registered Designs – from suitcase to court case
- ADR in patent agreements
- Japanese patent litigation: Samsung v Apple – the wrestlers in the ring
- Thank you for your (enhanced) cooperation?
- Update on the proposed European unitary patent and the unified patent court
- What does the Nagoya Protocol mean to you?
- IP rights – fundamental for a healthier future
- Patent trends in the hybrid-electric vehicle sector: onwards and upwards?
- Unitary patent court ratification: one step closer
- Tongue twisters in Bocacina v Boca Cafes: “the low cost court that uses costs to encourage lower future costs!”
- Pancake patent search falls flat
- The UK IP Bill: harmonizing UK and European design protection
- China trade marks – clarity on enforcement of colour combinations and changes to the law
- New European fees for filing cascaded divisional applications
- The Unitary Patent package: the Italian singularity
- Nestlé v Cadbury – the tale of the Kit Kat shape trade mark
- The UK IP Bill – definition of proposed criminal offence tightened up so as to more clearly target only intentional close copies
- UK IPO: patent prosecution highway and accelerated examination
- Patent trends in the clean energy sector
- NOW vs NOW – A warning against using ‘figleaf’ figurative elements in order to register descriptive or non-distinct words
- An overview of EP validation by country and technological sector
- Trade secrets: can you keep a secret?
- EPO refines rule 6 concerning the fee reductions associated with filing translations
- Santa Claus is coming to town
- Added matter: is the EPO becoming less stringent?
- The World Intellectual Property Office’s green fingers: WIPO Green
- G2/13 Broccoli – the main ingredient again in EPO referral to the enlarged board
- gTLDS – practical steps to protect yourself in the expanding internet
- Free online advice from the IPO
- “Should I stay or should I go”? – court of appeal decision in IPCom GmbH & Co Kg v HTC Europe Co Ltd & Others
- SPC terms are set to change in the UK
- Inventive step at the EPO 80s style
- A new dawn for community trade marks and a new name thrown in too!
- EPO guidelines – updated yearly and consulted frequently
- EPO changes rule 164 concerning searches for applications lacking unity
- IP5 PPH: A step towards a truly international patent application?
- PCC restructured as the IPEC
- Important update concerning the deadline for filing European divisional applications
- US patent office enters the spirit of the January sales
- Austria becomes the first European Union state to ratify the unitary patent package
- Rise of the machine translations: Espacenet to translate Russian language documents
- The end of the road for superfast UK patents
- Law commission consultation: groundless threats
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