The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decision on patent infringement by equivalence in Plant-e Knowledge B.V. &…
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The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decision on patent infringement by equivalence in Plant-e Knowledge B.V. &…
Read MoreThe Unified Patent Court, a centralised court having jurisdiction over infringement and validity of European patents in countries which have…
Read MoreThe UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) has recently announced the launch of its new ‘One IPO Search’ tool to…
Read MoreA recent EPO Board of Appeal (BoA) decision (T 1553/22) considered the patentability of human-animal chimeras (organisms or tissues that…
Read MoreThe beginning of the end? Practice at the European Patent Office (EPO) currently requires that, before an application is granted,…
Read MoreLucy Walker, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and Partner at intellectual property experts Barker Brettell, agrees that trading under your name…
Read MoreIn the food and drink space, ‘dupes’ refer to alternative (often, lower cost) products that closely mimic well-known food and…
Read MoreAvionics have been instrumental in establishing modern aviation. Since the term – a portmanteau of “aviation electronics” – was coined…
Read MoreThe decarbonisation of road transport in the coming decades seems inevitable. Governments around the world are preparing to ban the…
Read MoreIn the past 30 years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has improved by leaps and bounds. Suitably programmed computers are very well…
Read MoreThe Court of Appeal has now handed down the judgment in, arguably, the summer of 2024’s most anticipated UK patent…
Read MoreIn many jurisdictions (most notably the U.S.), multiple dependency of claims is not allowed. It is therefore common to have…
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