The Court of Appeal has handed down a decision which will be welcomed by many brand owners who face what they see as unfair practices by supermarkets producing lookalike products.

Understanding the financial commitment of patent maintenance is essential for long-term IP protection. UK patents require annual renewal fees starting four years after filing, with costs increasing progressively each year.

Securing a patent for an invention can be a complex process, but success fundamentally depends on being able to demonstrate that your innovation meets three criteria: novelty, inventiveness and industrial applicability.

Patent searching can be utilised for many different reasons. The reason will depend on the information sought by a particular individual, SME, or large multi-national company and also on what these entities think they will gain from the information returned by the patent search.

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) serve as the critical intersection between users and digital systems, revolutionising human-computer interaction through intuitive design and functionality.

Over the past two decades, Amazon has become an essential commerce platform for businesses of all sizes. However, the accessibility and scale of Amazon also introduce vulnerabilities...

Our role as patent attorneys is to transform laboratory breakthroughs into claims. We anticipate objections...

Further to this article from Paul Andrews, here, I consider the recent European Patent Office Boards of Appeal decision T 1977/22 and offer some practice guidance on drafting patent claims...

The UKIPO's decision in O/0756/25 concerning patent application GB2301883.1, "System and Method for Using Intelligent Codes in Conjunction with Non-Fungible Tokens", outlines how inventions based on NFTs...

Following my recent presentation at the EPO's Search and Examination Matters 2026 conference, this updated briefing reflects the latest developments...

The decision in Nutris v EUIPO concerned a likelihood-of-confusion assessment between a figurative mark, ProbioDefend, and the earlier word mark DEFENDYL...

As AI-generated deepfakes increasingly threaten celebrity reputations and enable fraud, traditional legal protections like passing off and copyright are proving inadequate. Can registered trade marks offer a more robust defence by converting personal features into enforceable rights against unauthorised commercial exploitation?

Trade mark registration provides exclusive legal rights to use a mark, protecting your brand identity and enabling you to take action against infringers.

This article provides an update to two earlier pieces I wrote in 2021 on UK and EU reforms to the regulation of gene-edited organisms: Reform of Regulation of Gene-Edited Organisms – An update...

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into the daily operations of IP practices, and law firms in general, offers paradigm-shifting and transformational potential.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the buzzword of our time. However, the broad concept of AI, encompassing any method that allows machines to imitate human behaviour, has been around since the early 1950s.

AI is transforming how IP professionals work and the real challenge isn't simply to go faster. In this article, Tony Afram, a European Patent Attorney and Founder & CEO of ipQuants AG, explores what responsible AI...

Asda's application to stay court proceedings in a Plant Variety Right (PVR) dispute has been dismissed; infringement proceedings will go ahead, despite pending PVR invalidity proceedings for Tang Gold.

Since 1 January 2021, EU trademarks (EUTMs) are no longer protected trademarks in the UK due to Brexit. In light hereof, the UK IPO created a comparable UK trade mark...

With continuing globalization of the energy economy, numerous trends are emerging with respect to intellectual property.