Soni joined the Chemistry and Life Sciences team at Haseltine Lake Kempner in 2015 as a German and European patent attorney.

The patent attorney qualification exams are notoriously difficult, but this time candidates were presented with even more of a challenge due to the ongoing pandemic.

The prize has five winners across five categories: protect and restore nature, clean our air, revive our oceans, build a waste-free world, and fix our climate.

Each month, we'll bring you valuable insights from our UPC experts, who'll unpack learnings from what's been happening at the Unified Patent Court.

Last week, HLK partner Jason Dainty chaired an online masterclass on managing brands through political movements, and the role of legal advisors in advising brands on engagement...

Brexit- where are we? What has changed? What's the position regarding EU trade marks and designs?

UPC decisions, and orders such as those discussed here, may be enforced across several countries. In cases relating to unitary patents, decisions and orders may be...

An important intermediate judgment has just this morning been handed down in the long-running Lidl v Tesco dispute.

The Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO) hearing the opposition appeal case on The Broad Institute's CRISPR patent EP2771468...

Good news – Less documents are now needed if you are transferring personal data from the EU to the U.S. Earlier this week the EU Commission formally adopted a new adequacy decision...

Last year, we looked at the patentability of blockchain inventions in Europe and China, noting the differences and similarities between how these cases are handled in the two jurisdictions.

Many Pride events have been cancelled across the world due to COVID-19.

As our readers will probably be aware, although the UK has now officially left the EU, a transition period is in place until (at least) 31 December 2020 which means that EU Registered Designs...

The distinction drawn in UK law between protection for artistic 3D designs (which receive copyright protection for the author's life plus 70 years) and for more functional 3D designs...

On July 15, 2020, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) of the European Patent Office held a hearing regarding the patentability of computer-implemented simulations.

2020 has been a peculiar year as the impact of COVID-19 has shaken the very fabric of our society. With the festive season now well and truly upon us, we're having to adapt and find the...

On 1 March 2021, an amended version of the EPO Guidelines for Examination came into force, including a new chapter G-II, 3.6.4 entitled "Database management systems and...

In the last five years about 20 to 35 Opinions have been requested each year, many in the names of patent attorney firms.

In the UK, the law of confidential information has been built up over many years and existed, until very recently, in a mixture of a carefully developed body of common law...

Last week the UPC Court of Appeal provided some much needed guidance on the ability of the public to gain access to pleadings and evidence held at the Registry...