Portfolio Planning & Management

Now that we are into 2025 the European Patent Office (EPO) has recently issued the 2024 edition of its annual Patent…

Anne Bate, patent paralegal & technical workflow specialist, joins John to mark their 30-year working partnership along with managing partner…

Barker Brettell provides cost-conscious, in-house patent specialists with European expertise Barker Brettell, the UK head-quartered intellectual property (IP) firm, is…

The Enlarged Board of Appeal has issued its preliminary opinion ahead of the upcoming oral proceedings on the G1/24 referral…

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decision on patent infringement by equivalence in Plant-e Knowledge B.V. &…

The Unified Patent Court, a centralised court having jurisdiction over infringement and validity of European patents in countries which have…

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) has recently announced the launch of its new ‘One IPO Search’ tool to…

A recent EPO Board of Appeal (BoA) decision (T 1553/22) considered the patentability of human-animal chimeras (organisms or tissues that…

In late December 2024 the UK IPO launched a three-month consultation on AI and copyright – closing on 25th February…

When developing technology that may lead to patentable inventions, it is always a good idea to work out what to…

Innovation in aircraft design In general, the design of production aircraft has not radically changed since the mid-twentieth century. For…

The beginning of the end? Practice at the European Patent Office (EPO) currently requires that, before an application is granted,…