Following the lifting of the national lockdown in the UK and months of home working, businesses have faced numerous challenges, from how to effectively enable employees to work at home to developing new strategies ...

With news that the Austrian parliament has ratified the Protocol on the provisional application of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on 2 December 2020, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) opening in 2022 is becoming more likely.

From 1 November 2022, the EPO has announced changes to the procedure for remedying patent applications that contain parts that have been included erroneously and updated the procedure for filing missing parts of a patent application.

Amazon.Com, Inc. [& ors] v Interdigital VC Holdings, Inc. [& ors] – Meade J –[2026] EWHC 499 (Pat) – 05 March 2026

Roy Amara, a researcher and computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute, now called SRI International, coined the so-called Amara's Law in the 1960s...

The N logo is synonymous with New Balance running shoes and is pretty much instantly recognised by consumers around the world and has mass appeal across generations.

The healthcare industry has experienced a significant transformation over the past few years, and this looks to be only the start of a significant re-think of how healthcare is provided...

The EPO recently published its 2023 Patent Index and there is, as seen in 2022, further increased patenting activity in key technologies relevant to the healthcare sector.

With an increasing number of European patents being granted year on year, freedom to operate for third parties has never been so important.

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is the first pan-European civil court and as such presents a number of new challenges.

The Italian Foreign Office has published a press release announcing an agreement with France and Germany to set up a branch of the Central Division in Milan.

The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023, effective as early as spring 2025, allows the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to establish a simplified regulatory process for precision-bred plants and animals, and their derived food and feed products. The FSA's new framework features a two-tiered system: Tier 1, a quicker, simplified approval process, and Tier 2, a longer process involving bespoke risk assessments for products with potential safety concerns. The FSA expects 18 applications ann

On the 23rd April, WIPO announced it was launching a specific search platform to aid researchers in searching for inventions that could be helpful in the current Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2023 Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL (Iconix) filed a trade mark infringement claim against Dream Pairs Europe Inc (Dream Pairs)...

At the final stage of prosecution, the EPO increasingly insists each patent description must align with the allowed claims to improve clarity and eliminate inconsistencies.

The UK musician, Ed Sheeran, one of the world's best selling artists with sales of 26 million albums and 100 million singles worldwide, has successfully defended a claim brought against him for copyright infringement.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) successfully pleaded a Gillette defence and obtained an Arrow declaration in a patent infringement action brought by Vectura in respect of inhalable medicaments...

With the increasing focus on placing sustainability at the heart of innovation in the space sector, exemplified by the launch of initiatives like Astra Carta, it's clear that the space sector...

Coffee is the second most traded commodity after oil. However, with rising coffee consumption comes more deforestation, greater use of pesticides...

Since 1973 when the United Kingdom joined the then European Economic Community (EEC) which ultimately morphed into the European Union, until the United Kingdom left the European Union...