Andy King - July 24, 2019 New European spirit drinks regulation EU 2019/787 Dydra Donath breaks down the new regulation the EU has placed on spirit drink trademarks. Article ...
Adam Gregory - July 23, 2019 Cultured meat - food for thought Cultured meat is rapidly emerging alongside plant-and microorganism-based alternative meat products ...
Tom Furnival - July 12, 2019 EPO Quality Report 2018 July has seen the publishing of the European Patent Office’s (EPO) 2018 Quality Report. This is the ...
Emily Hayes - July 9, 2019 New Rules of Procedure at the Boards of Appeal – what does this mean for patentees and opponents? Revised Rules of Procedure at the Boards of Appeal have been approved by The Administrative Council ...
Emily Hayes - July 5, 2019 A Myriad of effects Even though the decision in Myriad is now 6 years old and there have been several follow-on cases, ...
Sam Bailey - June 27, 2019 Charging into the future - the increasing demands on battery technologies Battery technology is an area of constant innovation. For years we have been trying to squeeze a ...
Christoph Moeller - June 26, 2019 Data and security issues in a world of connected cars Mobility patterns are changing and technological innovations in electrification, connectivity and ...
Frances Salisbury - June 26, 2019 Gender medicine – deriving novelty from treating women? When you hear the term “gender medicine”, what comes to mind? For many people, the term is ...
Kate O'Rourke - June 21, 2019 Three-stripes and you’re out: Adidas lose trade mark battle Adidas’ famed three-stripe logo has been deemed as lacking “distinctive character”. The General ...
Adam Gregory - June 21, 2019 Singapore biotech start-ups: the importance of patent protection Singapore’s biotech industry plays a key role in shaping the country’s future economy. This is ...
Anna Mudge - June 19, 2019 Tips from the top: inspiring women in technology You may be surprised to hear that only 17% of those working in Technology in the UK are female. ...
Callum McGuinn - June 18, 2019 Medicinal cannabis: recent changes and future innovations Government policy on the prescription of cannabis-derived medicines has undergone some interesting ...
Jacqueline Murphy - June 17, 2019 Managing Intellectual Property: IP Stars 2019 We are delighted to be ranked in Managing Intellectual Property: IP Stars for 2019.
Jacqueline Murphy - June 17, 2019 IAM Patent 1000, 2019 We are delighted to be ranked highly recommended in ‘IAM 1000: The World’s Leading Patent ...
Sean Jauss - June 14, 2019 Conducting due diligence and audits on intellectual property rights You conduct due diligence of intellectual property (IP) rights to check what is being sold or ...
Frances Salisbury - June 4, 2019 EU approves first gene therapy for patients with a mild form of β-Thalassemia Exciting news in the personalised medicine space – the EU has just approved the first gene therapy ...
Graeme Moore - May 29, 2019 The journey of rLoop - a new technology innovation network disrupting the world of transport and IP As a child growing up in Blackburn, near Manchester, UK, Ilyas Vali dreamed of owning a dog. He ...
Christoph Moeller - May 24, 2019 A single to Singapore please: the rise in on-demand bus services Discussion about future mobility tends to focus on the strategies of the major car manufacturers ...
Andy King - May 20, 2019 Glen Buchenbach - Scotch whisky? Originally published in The Trademark Lawyer, Dydra Donath discusses the recent CJEU decision on ...
Julie Carlisle - May 20, 2019 Protecting the ‘Trojan horse’ drug key to keeping a struggling field viable An Expert View column originally published in The Pharma Letter. Read the original article here. ...
Adam Gregory - May 17, 2019 Precision therapeutics for the precision medicine era In recent years we have seen dramatic advances in our understanding of the intricate and dynamic ...
Simon Kiddle - April 29, 2019 Personalised medicine: patient stratification While the general idea of customising treatment to patients is not new, the degree to which ...
Frances Salisbury - April 15, 2019 Pioneers of precision medicine Breakthroughs in healthcare promise a future in which the individual sits at the centre of medical ...
Jacqueline Murphy - April 10, 2019 AIPLA Women in IP Global Networking Event: Manchester 4 April 2019 On Thursday 4 April, we were delighted to host an American Intellectual Property Law Association ...
Simon Parry - April 5, 2019 Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles: growth and innovation While much attention and noise has surrounded the growth in the number of electric and plug-in ...
Matthew Smith - April 4, 2019 Hydrogen: the storage question There’s a lot to like about hydrogen. It’s light; it’s abundant (at least atomically - water and ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - April 3, 2019 Babybel trade mark blow The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has dealt a blow to the owners of Babybel cheese, ...
Maria Hall - April 1, 2019 Partner promotions and new Director position We are delighted to announce that Sarah Kostiuk-Smith, Jacqueline Pang and Eliot Ward have been ...
Christoph Moeller - March 28, 2019 The road to autonomous In a recent article published in Intellectual Property Magazine, Christoph Moeller explores the ...
Matthew Smith - March 28, 2019 Advanced materials: game-changing graphene In the 15 years since Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated and discovered ...
Julie Carlisle - March 28, 2019 Dosage regimen patents: bruised but not beaten Ruling on the big pharma Actavis v ICOS case, the UK Supreme Court has found ICOS’s Cialis patent ...
Emily Hayes - March 25, 2019 Playing for time: strategies that can help extend a drug's patent life In our new magazine Forward, we interview C Hunter Baker of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks PC. Hunter ...
Robert Watson - March 21, 2019 Numbering system for re-registered design rights and comparable trade marks The UK enacted the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 which provides the basis for how EU law will be converted ...
Maria Hall - March 11, 2019 Former CITMA President Kate O’Rourke to head our European trade mark services We are delighted to announce that Kate O’Rourke will join the firm on 1 April 2019.
Sean Constable - March 6, 2019 EPO oral proceedings in Haar - do they infringe a party’s right to be heard? A new referral to the Enlarged Board raises this question... The right to be heard under Article ...
Frances Salisbury - February 27, 2019 Bioinformatics Inventions: Patenting challenges at the interface of computer and life sciences We are entering an age of precision medicine, with patients receiving tailored treatments, selected ...
Emma Graham - February 26, 2019 How to patent AI technology at the EPO Once only a figment of the imagination in literature such as Mark Shelley’s Frankenstein, ...
Simon Parry - February 25, 2019 Self-driving vehicles: what do consumers think (and want)? As a survey of 25,000 consumers in 20 countries, and a study that has been conducted annually over ...
Simon Kiddle - February 22, 2019 Is your interest legitimate? New referral to the EBOA on double patenting EPO Board of Appeal 3.3.01 is referring a number of questions regarding double patenting to the ...
Matthew Smith - February 15, 2019 Building an IP portfolio: Nine tips for success Companies need to think carefully about how they protect, manage and leverage the various ...
Thomas Driver - February 6, 2019 Plant related inventions: clarity at last? As we reported previously, EPO Technical Board of Appeal 3304 recently ruled that a controversial ...
Frances Salisbury - February 4, 2019 Fighting cancer with CAR-T therapies In September 2018, NHS England entered into an agreement with Novartis to offer its CAR-T therapy, ...
Jacqueline Murphy - February 4, 2019 WTR 1000 2019 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals We are delighted to have been named as a recommended firm in the World Trademark Review 2019 ...
Emily Hayes - January 30, 2019 Commercialising genomic research in the US: tips for obtaining patent protection The field of genomics has seen incredible advances over the past few decades. Technological ...
Frances Salisbury - January 30, 2019 China - a key player in the global precision medicine race With a growing economy, and a large, ageing population, China is attracting attention from global ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - January 28, 2019 Google issued with €50 million fine by CNIL for data protection practices The French counterpart to our own Information Commissioner, the Commission nationale de ...
Christoph Moeller - January 28, 2019 Autonomous driving: the IP twists and turns Autonomous driving (AD) is on everyone’s lips when it comes to the next big thing in the automotive ...
Simon Parry - January 22, 2019 Autonomous vehicles - the race to innovate The future of the automotive sector will be fundamentally different from its past. Electric ...
Sean Jauss - January 14, 2019 Eight key themes from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference I’ve spent the last few days talking with biotech entrepreneurs, VC fund managers and lawyers ...
Graeme Moore - December 13, 2018 Blockchain: the next patent boom Emma Graham and Graeme Moore attended the EPO’s “Patenting Blockchain” conference in The Hague – ...
Frances Salisbury - December 13, 2018 Precision medicine: ethics, regulation and patent law New genomic and proteomic analysis technologies allow for diagnosis and prognosis of patients with ...
Christoph Moeller - December 11, 2018 Future mobility: the new direction of transport Massive social, economic and technology trends are converging to change mobility - how we move ...
Frances Salisbury - December 10, 2018 Plant related inventions: the saga continues We may be approaching the end of the year, but the saga of patents for plant related inventions at ...
Adam Gregory - December 10, 2018 Patent protection: five tips for biotech start-ups Early-stage biotech companies are often founded based on the exciting results of pre-clinical ...
Richard Clegg - December 10, 2018 Clovis Oncology success in European Opposition Proceedings related to Rubraca® Clovis Oncology has announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) last week upheld claims of ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - December 6, 2018 Significant blow to Cadbury in purple trade mark battle Cadbury has been dealt a blow by the Court of Appeal in its battle to maintain its trade mark for ...
Nick Sutcliffe - November 14, 2018 Supreme Court decision signals bad news for patent holders The UK Supreme Court issued its decision today on the Warner Lambert vs Generics (UK) Ltd t/a ...
Shaun Harvey - November 8, 2018 Our Cambridge Office moves to prestigious Innovation Park Our Cambridge office moved on 26 November to the prestigious St John’s Innovation Park at the ...
Frances Salisbury - October 31, 2018 Precision Medicine: the next revolution in healthcare In recent years, we have witnessed a remarkable healthcare revolution. Thanks to advances in ...
Richard Clegg - October 31, 2018 Morphosis: creating and nurturing biotech start-ups in Singapore We understand that early-stage biotech companies do not have it easy. It is a long road from ...
Simon Parry - October 30, 2018 Team Bath Racing Electric: racing to success Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) achieved their best ever ranking at the 2018 Formula Student UK ...
Matthew Smith - October 29, 2018 Development in the war on superbugs The spread of antibiotic-resistant infections is one of the most serious threats in modern ...
Matthew Smith - October 25, 2018 Graphene: a whole new '2D world' Graphene has been heralded as a game changer in the research and development of new materials since ...
Graeme Moore - October 19, 2018 Patenting board games and puzzles Quite a lot of people think of new games and puzzles, and wonder whether patenting would help them ...
Matthew Smith - October 8, 2018 JIPA 2018 European Seminar The Japanese Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) has been promoting fair and effective ...
Seán Walton - October 3, 2018 The pioneering work of Professor Sir Greg Winter Professor Sir Greg Winter’s pioneering work using phage display for the directed evolution of ...
Sean Constable - October 2, 2018 Life as a trainee patent attorney Sean Constable, trainee patent attorney in our life sciences patent team, joined Mewburn Ellis as ...
Shaun Harvey - October 1, 2018 Our growth story The last 12 months have seen a period of remarkable growth and development for the firm. In ...
Robert Watson - September 27, 2018 Navigating the Brexit landscape: patents The existing European patent system was unaffected by the UK leaving the EU earlier in 2020, and by ...
Jacqueline Pang - July 20, 2018 Roger Federer in trade mark dispute with Nike Roger Federer recently left Nike and signed a deal with Uniqlo reportedly worth $30million per ...
Maria Hall - July 9, 2018 Our new brand: the forward-looking IP firm Mewburn Ellis is a name synonymous with quality in the IP space. We are also seen as a firm that ...
Simon Kremer - April 30, 2018 Changes to inter partes review system for challenging granted patents Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two important decisions relating to inter partes review ...
Richard Johnson - April 26, 2018 ECJ provides clarity on the application of Article 8(1) of the Community Design Regulation Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), recently handed down a decision in ...
Anna Mudge - April 20, 2018 Celebrating women working in IP in the North West On Thursday 19 April, we were proud hosts of an American Intellectual Property Law Association ...
Callum Anderson - August 1, 2017 UK Supreme Court Establishes Doctrine of Equivalents in Actavis v Lilly In many jurisdictions a product or process may be held to infringe even though it falls outside the ...