In mid-October, the Council of the European Union approved two legislative acts within the EU design package: an updated directive on the legal protection of designs and an amended regulation on European Union designs.

A decision on 7 March 2024 from Miljø - og Fødevareklagenævnet in Denmark has finally given us some long-desired guidance to the producers of sweet rum on how to market and label their products.

Nearly six months on from the opening of the Unified Patent Court and establishment of the Unitary Patent, the frenzy of bulk instructing, preparing and filing bulk...

CAN BATTERY RECYCLING INNOVATION SATISFY THE GROWING DEMAND FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE BATTERY PRODUCTION IN EUROPE?

We all love boats. From a kayak to a container ship, there's just something great about being on the water. We also all love receiving our goods quickly, cheaply and with minimal environmental impact.

Researchers at UNSW are transforming wine and coffee byproducts into sustainable, high-performance battery materials, addressing environmental challenges in lithium-ion technology. This innovation supports circular economies, green energy transitions, and demands robust intellectual property strategies for commercial success.

The 13th Edition of the Nice Classification took effect on 1 January 2026, introducing notable changes to the classification of goods and services across sectors such as AI, eyewear, clothing and beauty.

Google and Universal Music are, according to the Financial Times, in negotiations which may lead to the development of a platform whose users can create AI-generated music...

An EPO Board of Appeal has requested clarification from the Enlarged Board of Appeal concerning how the claims of a patent or application are to be interpreted,

In a recent decision from the EUIPO Board of Appeal, it was found that the there was a confusing similarity between the JÄGERMEISTER and ST. JOSEPH (as shown below)...

If you are working with or developing any form of software, you should have a robust licensing agreement in place.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has recently confirmed that a typographical error or any other inaccuracy in a patent claim can only be corrected by way of claim interpretation if the existence of an error...

The US Patent and Trade Mark Office ("USPTO") has denied OpenAI's application to register "GPT" as a trade mark, on the basis that it is merely descriptive of the goods and services specified by the mark applied for.

Yesterday, in a highly anticipated ruling,1 the UPC Court of Appeal ("CoA") dismissed an appeal brought by Ocado in its litigation in the UPC against Autostore...

The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal has issued a communication hinting at a potential relaxing of the law concerning the doctrine of ‘plausibility' and the use of post-filed data to support inventive step.

On 1st November, Potter Clarkson collaborated with Pro-Manchester and Bruntwood to host an event including panel sessions with investment and start-up experts.

In a current US copyright infringement case, the defendants, Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen argue that there is no copyright in the well-known bored ape images traded as NFTs by Yuga Labs, Inc.

The Mannheim local division of the Unified Patent Court ("UPC") handed down a decision at the end of November 2024 on the issue of infringement of a Standard Essential Patent EP 2 568 724 B1 ("SEP")...

The new fund is due to launch on 2 February 2026 and will offer up to a maximum of €7320 per SME in vouchers for use in protecting IP.

In the first substantive decision of the UPC concerning luxury fashion, the Hamburg Local Division has found Gucci not liable for infringement of patent EP 3 388 490, relating to a method for embellishing...