October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. According to Cancer Research UK, approximately 55,0000 people will receive a diagnosis of breast cancer in the United Kingdom this year.

Updated Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) entered into force on 1 January 2024. A number of proposed changes to the Rules were under consultation...

Jack Daniels Properties, Inc (JD), known for JACK DANIEL'S whisky, opposed a third-party application to register JACK & VICTOR as a UK trade mark. The application spanned various classes...

The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has given its most substantive decision to date (ORD_595990/2023), overturning a preliminary injunction...

For the past two decades, whilst alternative dispute resolution has been encouraged, the received wisdom was that the Courts in England and Wales would not go as far as mandating that parties mediate.

AI experts Michael Fischer and Richard Kennedy explore how the standardisation process in the field of AI is further developing and the importance of having a strong patent strategy.

Since the Unified Patent Court (UPC) came into being on 1 June 2023, practitioners have been reading the runes of the early decisions for signs of how the new European legal order for patents will shake out.

Lewis Hamilton has lost his appeal against partial refusal to register his name as a trade mark in the EU. The Board of Appeal ("BoA") decided that he did not qualify for recognition...

CAP-XX and Tesla have been embroiled in patent litigation in the US since 2019, with CAP-XX originally suing Maxwell Technologies (a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesla) and Tesla subsequently suing CAP-XX.

This year sees the 50th anniversary of the grant of US 3,789,409, widely regarded as the original Global Positioning System (GPS) patent.

The annual updated version of the Guidelines for Examination is due to come into force on 1 March 2024.

In a significant development for legal representation before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU'), the recent case of bonnanwalt v EUIPO...

Matthew Handley reports on the G3/19 decision.

It is fair to say that the relationship between these two companies has been poor right from the start, and that there have been claims and counterclaims in actions for patent infringement...

Technical standards are usually produced by standard development organisations (SDOs), with inputs from industry and technical experts. Large businesses may be involved in the development...

The UK Supreme Court has handed down its judgement in Actavis v ICOS [2019] UKSC 15 unanimously upholding the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal that the patent to a specific dosage regimen of tadalafil was obvious.

Gene therapy is considered to be one of the most exciting and promising forms of medical treatments available today...

With the recent awarding of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Dr Katalin Karikó & Dr Drew Weissman, for their discoveries that enabled the development...

The introduction of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) offers a new route to centrally challenge the validity of patents granted by the European Patent Office (EPO).

While consumer spending habits continue to change, Christmas remains the peak season for many businesses in the western world.