These must, of course, plot a path through their own complex regulatory and ethical landscapes.

In this episode we look at a range of important IP topics not yet covered by our previous episodes and which any size of company should consider as a way of protecting and using their IP to help achieve their corporate goals.

I have worn glasses and contact lenses for most of my life to correct my ever-worsening myopia (short-sightedness).

It has recently been reported in the national press that the anonymous artist, Banksy, is engaged in a trade mark dispute with a greetings card company, Full Colour Black.

The EPO's practice on double patenting has been rather settled over the past decade. As indicated in the EPO's Guidelines for Examination ...

As has been reported by numerous media outlets, Dulwich Hamlet Football Club recently received a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing Greendales IP LLC, a company related to Meadow Residential LLP...

Highly anticipated, widely misinterpreted and surely much talked about: another chapter in the case of Christian Louboutin's red sole trade mark has come to a conclusion.

The life of a patent attorney is hard enough as it is, but using the EPO claim drafting convention, one would be forgiven for thinking that after carefully steering around the prior art in the...

The life of a patent attorney is hard enough as it is, but using the EPO claim drafting convention, one would be forgiven for thinking that after carefully steering around the prior art...

Under what circumstances are Supplemental Protection Certificates (SPCs) available for combination products? Numerous judgements by the Court of Justice of the EU have failed...

In the second of this two-part podcast on how to obtain a granted patent, we look at how patent attorneys can overcome objections from the Patent Office...

Kicking off the first episode of the long awaited Season 2 of The IP Podcast, Dehns Partner Tim Wilson discusses NFTs, answering...

In this episode of The IP Podcast, we're looking at a major topic in the IP world, and certainly the biggest and most significant change to the European Patent system for nearly 50 years...

There have been a number of trade mark decisions in the English Courts on the issue of acquiescence, most recently the Combe International and anor v Dr Wolff and anor [2021] EWHC 3347 (Ch).

Following a week of political drama, which has seen the resignation of the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, the British Government today published its...

Today, 13 June 2018, the UK became a member of the "Hague Agreement for the International Registration of Industrial Designs". This follows the UK's ratification of the agreement three months previously.

The Grand Committee of the House of Lords this afternoon considered the Order on Privileges and Immunities, following the Commons' approval of the same Order.

SPCs provide a valuable extension to patent protection in Europe for pharmaceutical, veterinary and plant protection products.

Most often, the invention in a patent application is for early stage, sometimes speculative, research which is yet to be fully realised.

The American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (AIPLA) has just released a proposal to change the law on what kinds of inventions may be patented.