In this judgment Nicholas Caddick QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, found Coloplast's patent for a "comfort layer" for an ostomy bag invalid for obviousness

In April 2018, the CMA opened five investigations in the musical instrument sector relating to alleged anticompetitive agreements and/or concerted practices.

Which?, the UK consumer organisation, announced on 25 February that it is bringing a claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal against chip manufacturer Qualcomm on behalf of UK purchasers.

Many employers operate enhanced redundancy schemes under which they agree to make payments in excess of the statutory redundancy entitlement.

Last Wednesday, Alex Denoon and Xisca Borrás presented a webinar on the MHRA consultation on the future regulation of medical devices in the UK.

Computer implemented patents potentially face exclusion from patentability by way of section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 as "a program for a computer…as such".

Recent events in the pharmaceutical industry have shown that, owing to state intervention leaving differing prices across the European market, the competition rules may be applied less stringently to conduct that interferes with parallel trade of pharmaceuticals than for other products. GlaxoSmithKline has been at the forefront of recent developments with its commercial response to parallel traders in Greece and in Spain.

It has long been argued before the English courts (and generally accepted albeit that evidence is required) that if an allegedly infringing generic product is allowed to launch prior to trial...

The VABE came into force in 2010 and is due to expire on 31 May 2022.

In August 2020, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Peninsula Securities Ltd v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Ltd. This judgment is important in its own right, taking a new approach to common...

Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) Decisions are available on the EPO website at http://legal.european-patent-office.org/dg3/updates/index.htm and similarly decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) can be downloaded from http://www.european-patent-office.org/dg3/g_dec/index.htm.

Drug and alcohol abuse can negatively affect an individual’s ability to perform their job. What can employers do if they suspect employees are adversely affected by alcohol or illegal drugs in the workplace?

Around 450,000 people are chosen at random by computer each year to serve on a jury. Any person on the electoral roll between the ages of 18 to 70 may be selected and, since the Criminal Justice Act 2003, this covers a much wider cross-section of society. For example, lawyers are now eligible for jury service, having been in an excluded category for hundreds of years. Those who remain disqualified include persons on bail, those who have served or been sentenced to terms of imprisonment or certai

The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020 by passing the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the Withdrawal Act).

With computers proving indispensable in the work environment and having become such an integral part of modern life, it is common for employers to provide their employees with computer equipment to use at home where the relevant computer equipment may be used either partly or wholly for non-work purposes. If an employer does provide a computer to an employee for use at home either wholly or partly for non-work purposes (rather than being provided solely for work purposes), how will the employee

On 17 November 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published guidance offering reassurance that collaborations between medicine manufactures o make combination therapies available on the NHS...

How to deal with hype, ethical complexity, and the difficulties of future-proofing

There is no doubt that Christmas "is the most wonderful time of the year." What makes it so wonderful are its secular rituals and traditions which vary from country to country and house to house...

There are important public policy reasons for encouraging employers to employ people with criminal records. Statistics show that if a person with a criminal record finds settled employment, the chances of them re-offending are cut by two-thirds. However, it is recognised that in some cases, it is proper for an employer to know whether a job applicant has a criminal record and it was for this purpose that the government set up the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) in 2002, under Part V of the Polic

One of the less convincing aspects of the last fortnight's flurry of announcements about advances in simulating early human development (see here) concerned their name.