IP News
A Taste of the Future?
It is an exciting time for technical innovations in the food industry, in the UK, Europe and globally. We look here at...
October 2021
Patent Filing Trends in the UK Over the Past Twenty Years
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) has recently completed two reviews on patent filing data from 2000 to 2020...
October 2021
Unitary Patent Package Moving Forward Again
Germany has now ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement after a long delay caused by challenges before the...
September 2021
Deadline to create UK trade mark and design applications cloned from certain corresponding EU rights which were pending at the end of the Brexit transition period is 30 September 2021
Owners of EU Trade Marks and Designs (including designations of the EU under the International System administered by...
September 2021
The Impact of Brexit on Pharmaceutical Patents & SPCs in the UK
A recent paper in the British Journal of Pharmacy from the University of Huddersfield Press discusses the implications...
May 2021
A bug’s life: M&S brings legal action as regards Aldi’s Cuthbert the Caterpillar
If you have been consumed by the news surrounding the global battle against Covid-19, then you may have missed the...
May 2021
Pakistan joins International Trade Mark System
Pakistan has recently deposited its instrument of accession to the Madrid Protocol with the World Intellectual Property...
April 2021
DABUS out of the running for inventor’s rights - no leg to stand on?
In late 2018 Dr Stephen Thaler filed two patent applications with the UK IPO. Upon filing, these applications were...
March 2021
More Formal Channels: PCT Extended to Guernsey and Gibraltar
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) has been expanded to include Guernsey and Gibraltar following recent announcements...
February 2021
IP Post Brexit
The United Kingdom has left the European Union (“Brexit”) and the “Transitional Period” is now over. Nonetheless, Beck...
January 2021