On 1 June 2023, the day that the Unified Patent Court has come into effect, the Court also announced that English will now be a language of proceedings at the Local Divisions in France...

The EUIPO has recently announced that, with effect from 12 September, it will become an accessing office under the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS).

The conference drew an audience of more than 90 intellectual property practitioners.

Following the recent referral to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal, the EPO has issued a notice indicating that all pending proceedings before the examination and opposition divisions at the EPO

In a widely anticipated judgement, in Unwired Planet v Huawei, the U.K.'s Supreme Court has today rejected appeals by Huawei and ZTE, and affirmed the English ...

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) yesterday announced a significant change to its address for service rules.

Today we look at some inspiring women inventors who have paved the way for modern technologies.

Current advances in technology are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between the physical and digital, making the task of enforcing IPR harder.

Following the December General Election the "Brexit Bill" legislation (based on the withdrawal agreement reached between the UK and the EU) has finally passed and the EU Parliament gave its approval yesterday.

Going from strength to strength; Haseltine Lake Kempner gains a new Partner to join their Chemistry and Life Sciences team

There have been many inventions that have transformed our society from the computer to vaccinations to celluloid.

Tuesday 10 October 2023 is World Mental Health Day and this year's theme, set by the World Federation for Mental Health, is Mental health is a universal human right.

On 16 July 2021, the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal issued the order of its decision of G1/21 which concerned the legality of enforcing oral proceedings by videoconference.

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Administrative Committee has confirmed here that many UK-based European patent attorneys will be able to represent parties at the UPC.

The EPO has announced this week that it intends to extend its pilot project for oral proceedings by videoconference before the Opposition Division until 15 September 2021.

According to statistics 1 in 6.8 people experience mental health problems in the workplace, that is why at HLK we have various means...

We considered the factors which may help you decide whether to opt out an individual patent in our earlier blog. However, there is also a wider question of opt out strategy across your EP portfolio.

The final session of the day was a panel discussion on the new Rules of Procedure of the Board of Appeal hosted by Joe Lenthall and with Christopher Rennie-Smith and David Brown

The Managing Intellectual Property IP Stars 2020 results have now been released...

Every year from 2021 to 2030, the Earthshot Prize will launch a global search for innovative solutions to the climate crisis.