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The Importance of IP Audits: Top Five Ways to Lose Investment

Congratulations! You’ve just bought your first Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio – it holds the key to untold possibilities in innovation, value, and growth. It cost a fair bit, so it must be g...

Patent Law & Practice at a Glance

We regularly review changes to patent law and practice at the UKIPO, EPO and in other jurisdictions so that we can keep abreast of the latest developments. Please feel free to contact your usual GJE c...

UPC Litigation

The Unitary Patent (UP) together with the Unified Patent Court (UPC) represent the biggest shake up of the European patent system for more than 40 years.  The new system of en...

Biomedical Engineering: The Patent Landscape

Biomedical engineering is a broad field, encompassing most devices and apparatuses that interact with the human body for medical purposes in some way. This report aims to identify the major filers of ...

Balancing Cost, Risk and Coverage With Unitary Patents: A Biomedical Engineering Case Study

Until recently there has been no way to obtain a single patent right covering several European countries.  However, the framework surrounding patent protection in Europe is changing.  The ne...

The Unified Patent Court

What is the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and when will it open? The UPC is a forum for central litigation of a unitary patent. It will also have jurisdiction over European patents that are not opted out...

Intellectual Property – If a Tree Falls in a Forest and No One Is Around To Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?

The title of this piece quotes an interesting philosophical question.  In the world of patents, this question is somewhat analogous to the question “to what extent does prior use of an inventio...

Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent

Streamline infringement and validity disputes across different EU Member States On 20 July 2020, the UK officially withdrew from the proposed Unified Patent Court (UPC) system. In a parliamentary writ...

Unified Patent Court & Unitary Patent

The European patent system is going through one of its biggest changes since the introduction of a European patent in the 1970s. The Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) fully entered in...

Supplementary Protection Certificates

We can help you secure a patent term extension to compensate for the time it takes for your new drug to pass clinical trials and receive marketing authorisation.  In many European countries, you�...