Although there have been tensions in recent times over the balance between patent and plant variety rights, it seems that the EPO and...

"It was the most obvious of ideas, it was the least obvious of ideas" (with apologies to Charles Dickens). When looking at inventions in...

Virgin opposed the UK trade mark application for "Virginic" on the basis of its earlier trade mark registrations for "Virgin" for...

Sometimes in this profession you come across a patent or application which solves a problem you had never imagined existed. While I found...

Cambridge is the UK's most innovative city, measured by number of patents published per resident.  At 315.7 patents per 100,000...

The EPO is considering options for more flexibility in the patent examination process and is inviting all interested parties to provide...

After attending the IP Inclusive Women in IP panel event last night on flexible working (which was a fantastic event), and the associated...

As reported by the BBC, the identification of the genes lrrc10 and caveolin in Mexican tetra fish could lead to advances in treatments...

The news reporting of NearSt's tie-up with Google is another story of a successful UK technology startup. From the perspective of a...

A US Inventor has recently been given permission by the US court system to challenge the validity of two patents which he was a named...

Keeping an eye on patent related news can give a real insight into where companies are focusing their efforts or areas that they are...

I recently posted about the twentieth anniversary of the patent search database called Espacenet. It really is a great resource for...

It seems the UK government is still very much talking the talk that they believe we (the UK) will be part of the UPC  system after...

In 2017 the EPO amended its rules to exclude from patentability plants and animals obtained by essentially biological breeding processes....

The UK Supreme Court has dismissed Warner-Lambert's appeal concerning pregabalin/Lyrica for use in the treatment of pain and has...

I am currently on a business trip to Japan and following in the footsteps of the European Patent Office (EPO), who held a seminar on...

The CJEU has handed down its judgment in the referral from The Netherlands regarding copyright in the taste of cheese.

The Court has held...

I love this comment at the end of a fascinating article from hbr about continuous learning.  Whilst, like many others, I am required...

As a self-confessed adult fan of LEGO (AFOL) I was interested to see the recent case that the LEGO Group has won against imitators in...

With more and more US states legalising cannabis, patent filings related to the drug are also on the increase. It is interesting to see...

Much of what I do day to day involves sitting at the interface between the legal and technical worlds. Communicating in a meaningful way...

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, announced  last week that a new fifty pound note would be released to celebrate the...

The CJEU recently confirmed that microorganisms prepared using gene editing technologies such as CRISPR fall within the Genetically...

Following on from my previous post, where I reported on a collaboration between NASA and Uber relating to taxis in the sky, it seems that...

A news story seems to break almost every week about the application of AI (and more specifically, machine learning) to addressing...

Many thanks to CITMA for its continued lobbying of the government on Brexit-related IP issues.

CITMA was among the organisations to give...

Illumina are to purchase Pacific Biosciences for $1.2 billion. Illumina already dominate the short-read NGS market and this will give...

As a part of my job, I am sometimes asked to place a value on a particular patent or application. This can be very difficult to do as a...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a technique for improved optical sensing and subsequently recognized that it works in the...

I was having a discussion recently about the impact of smart phones on how we live our lives - in particular with regard to the impact of...

Today is World Vegan Day and what better way to celebrate than to take a look at how The Vegan Society is successfully licensing its...