In Beck Greener's second podcast, Looking Closer, Partners James Stones and Catherine Jewell discuss the topic of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – what it is, Beck Greener's CSR strategy...

In this webinar, our trade mark team provided an analysis of which marks parties should rely upon in opposition and cancellation proceedings in the EU...

Following the series of disasters affecting Japan, OHIM has extended time limits for Japanese companies and individuals.

In Beck Greener's first podcast, Looking Closer, Partners Avi Freeman and Jonathan Markham discuss the subject of employee-inventor compensation.

Beck Greener partner Catherine Jewell, Mark Bloomberg of Zuber Lawler and Roy Saunders of the IBSA discussed intellectual property ownership and licensing in a recent IBSA webinar.

The date has been fixed for the reduction in CTM official fees. The European Community trade marks office has announced that the fees reduction will apply from 1st May 2009.

A recent case has seen two multinational corporations conduct a patent battle relating to automatic devices for cleaning showers at the Patents County Court.

A recent decision of the Court of Appeal confirms that a company which manufactured a machine outside of the Untited Kingdom, and sold that machine to a UK manufacturer, could be held liable for infringment of a UK patent even though the patent only protected a manufacturing method which could be carried out on the machine.

A new scam has emerged directed at owners of domain names in the UK. Previously, individuals posing as domain name registrars in Asia have tried to deceive the owners of trade marks and of domain names into buying a series of domain names with suffixes such as .com.cn and .asia. The bogus registrar purports to have had instructions to register the victim's name.

Chile and Cape Verde deposited their instruments of accession to the Madrid Protocol with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva on 4 and 6 April 2022 respectively,...

As suggested by Sir James Dyson in his report entitled "Ingenious Britain" (March 2010), the UK government will give British businesses tax breaks from April 2013 to encourage them to patent their innovations.

In a judgment delivered on 12th June 2009, Edwards Lifesciences v Cook Biotech[2009] EWHC 1304 (Pat),Kitchin J made it clear that questions of ownership need to be resolved right at the outset of the patent filing and prosecution process.

In a recent case at the Appeal Court in England, once again about aircraft seats, it was confirmed that if a defendant was found to have infringed a valid patent, it would have to pay assessed damages, even if that particular patent was subsequently revoked.

On 18 January 2022, Austria deposited its ratification of the Protocol on Provisional Application of the Unified Patents Court (UPC). The official period of practical preparation...

In this webinar, partners Avi Freeman and Jon Markham reviewed the important cases from the UK courts and the EPO Boards of Appeal in 2016.

UK and European patents provide legal protection for products, but from this year they may also provide a reduction in corporation tax on worldwide profits from those products.

The High Court (Arnold J) had summarily dismissed a claim for patent infringement brought by Virgin.

Before the UK Patents Act was amended with effect from 1st October 2005, a defendant found to infringe a patent could escape having to pay damages.

Patentees are advised to mark their products and packaging with patent numbers.

The Court of Appeal has now referred various questions about Marketing Authorisations to the ECJ.