The decision provides a cautionary tale of the importance of good conduct when receiving a draft judgment.

This webinar will discuss the merits of the Unitary Patent, its value for money and risks.

From December 8, 2024, EU design applications can include designs from different Locarno classes, streamlining registration. However, fees will increase significantly on May 1, 2025.

Last autumn, the hype surrounding the pistachio cream-filled "Dubai Chocolate" with angel hair spread to Germany. Around the turn of the year...

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Having granted Unwired Planet a final injunction to restrain infringement of two standard essential patents by Huawei in its main judgment ([2017] EWHC 711 (Pat)) the High Court has now ruled on remedies.

The defendant is the owner of a pharmacy and has been selling pharmaceutically-only products via Amazon since 2017.

According to the German Federal Patent Court, inventions that have been generated by a computer system...

In a judgement of 20 June 2023 (case number X ZR 31/21), the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) once again specified, when an action for revocation is still admissible even after the expiry of the patent in suit, ...

Maucher Jenkins successfully represented the German web hosting company ZAP-Hosting GmbH & Co. KG against a claim for damages due to an alleged data protection breach before the District Court of Münster.

Applicants may soon find themselves with less time for filing and prosecuting divisional patent applications at the UKIPO.

The ECJ ruled that advertised price reductions must reflect the lowest price from the last 30 days, per Directive 98/6/EC, to prevent misleading discount claims. This decision aims to enhance consumer protection and price transparency.

Having spent my time in university coding robots and solving seemingly impossible maths questions, I did not expect that I would end up pursuing a career in Intellectual Property (IP) at the end of it.

On 29 July 2025 the European Patent Office's (EPO) Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.02 made the first referral of 2025 to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal on the question of the need to amend the description...

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) will be launching a new, tiered financial support pilot scheme for small to medium enterprises (SMEs).

An escape room sounds like an unusual subject for a patent application, and a method to operate one doubly so. A patent practitioner hears the peal of multiple alarm bells:

The Court of Appeal has recently allowed an appeal by trade body Dairy UK Ltd, and reinstated the UKIPO Hearing Officer's declaration of invalidity of the UK trade mark POST MILK GENERATION...

On 19 December 2023, the Federal Patent Court declared the German part of the European patent EP 1 857 122 B1 of CureVac of Tübingen invalid following an action for revocation brought by BioNTech from Mainz.

The Higher Regional Court of Koblenz prohibited Eckes-Granini from marketing "Hohes C Immun Water" due to misleading health claims, citing EU regulations. The court ruled that "Immun Water" suggests unverified immune benefits, which violates authorized health claim standards.

Denmark is fighting back against AI generated "deepfakes" by proposing a new law that gives individuals the legal right to their own facial features, voice, and likeness.