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

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.

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

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.

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

Pros And Cons Of The Unified Patent Court (UPC) – Asia Pacific Webinar

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, ...

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.

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).

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.

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.

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...

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.

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:

On 22 March 2024, the Court of Appeal issued a judgment on the decision from the trial judge to revoke JCB's EP(UK) Patent 2 263 965 for a safety control system for a telehandler.

The plaintiff applied to WIPO for the word mark EMMENTALER for the goods "cheese with the protected designation of origin Emmentaler" as an international registration with designation of the EU.