The CJEU has this week handed down its answer to a question referred by the German Bundespatentgericht, and has emphatically shut the...

There is a US patent for every occasion! US Patent 6,904,612 apparently provides protection for a Halloween costume particularly adapted...

Choosing a career is a monumental task. I remember taking the career aptitude test at school, which suggested that I should become a...

Along with the headline-grabbing tax implications of yesterday's Budget, which I will leave the more qualified people to discuss, the...

It's 20 years this month since the launch of Espacenet - one of the largest free to use patent databases in the world.

Espacenet allows...

A recent judgment from the General Court to annul a decision of the EUIPO to invalidate an EUTM registration for the word DEVIN - the...

Following on from my post on Mo Farah and Usain Bolt’s choices of registered trade mark protection comes this interesting article which...

Anyone can file an Opposition against the grant of a European patent. So if the real protagonist would prefer to remain out of sight,...

Even sports stars can utilise trade mark registrations. Signature moves may not be the most conventional of trade marks, but they are key...

Lord Kitchin's judgement in Icescape v Ice-World has been a topic of discussion recently because of the application of the "markedly...

Having a background in telecoms and a keen interest in shortwave radio, the concept of an AM-transmitting cello intrigues me. Assuming...

On Tuesday this week Claridge Candles Limited, a UK based candle maker, responded to an recent trade mark dispute filed by Claridge's...

Following the landmark Activis v Eli Lilly ([2017] UKSC 48) case, the UK patent profession has been grappling with the implications of a...

I have previously reported on litigation between Unwired Planet and Huawei, which has been progressing through the English courts for...

A really interesting video from the BIA explaining how Artificial Intelligence is being used to discover new treatments for Parkinson's...

The French courts have this week referred additional questions to the CJEU. In a break from the stream of questions regarding the...

Figures released by professional services firm RPC reveal that there was a 20% increase in the number of new trade marks registered for...

As an Applicant for a patent, you would like to think that your application will be judged solely on its merits according to the relevant...

For a number of years, we have participated in the EPO's Praktika extern programme, which allows Examiners to spend time with patent...

Details of a Brexit deal are still under negotiation and IP rights based in EU law will be affected when the UK leaves the European...

Many technology start-ups and small businesses use patent applications as evidence for potential investors that there is an innovative,...

Earlier this year, the EPO hosted its first conference on patenting Artificial Intelligence (AI). Following that conference, the new EPO...

"WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, has patched a bug found on its platform which could allow attackers to gain access to users’ accounts when...

As part of an April fool’s joke this year, Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, posted a picture of himself apparently ‘passed out’ propped up...

It never ceases to amaze me how there is always more to research, and always more to develop (plus of course the associated IP to protect).

The level of definition required for an active ingredient to be considered "protected by a basic patent" under Article 3(a) of the SPC...

Very interesting to see statistics published by MarkMonitor that reemphasise the importance of protecting a brand online.  

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Being on the receiving end of a court action for patent infringement will cost a six or seven figure sum to defend. That's a risk most...

Patents covering key breakthrough technologies often generate attention, but many fields of development generate large numbers of...

Entertainment One is the Canadian media company behind much-loved children's television show Peppa Pig. Its Senior Director of Brand...

Tech giants Microsoft have recently announced that they are joining the Open Invention Network (OIN). This is an open-source patent group...

I was recently struck by this TED talk about how language shapes the way we think.

Proceedings before the European Patent Office can be...

The first hundred days is a phrase commonly associated with US Presidents. This period is considered long enough that people can start to...

The European Patent Office usually restrict the number of independent claims that you can include in your patent application (Rule 43(2)...

Earlier this year I commented on the upsurge in immunotherapy cancer research - see “Exciting times for immunotherapy”. The significance...

Last year, £942.5 million was claimed using the UK government's Patent Box scheme. This scheme allows innovative companies to pay a...