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UK Proposes Reciprocal Generation of Unregistered Design Rights With EU

Under EU design law, products first disclosed in the EU may automatically generate unregistered design rights (UDR), providing protection for their appearance within each EU member state.  With t...

Six Things to Consider When Protecting the Design of Your Food and Drink Product

When it comes to protecting the logo, branding and packaging of your food and drink product, often people turn their immediate attention to trade marks, potentially overlooking valuable protection ava...

Pinot in the Post – Can Letterbox Friendly Packaging Designs Be Protected?

They say necessity is the mother of invention.  That may be true, but in this brave new world of social distancing and contactless deliveries, clever product design is also coming to the fore –...

A Material Difference in Registered Designs

Earlier this month, we brought you news of an IPEC decision in which a design right holder suffered from a failure to properly consider how colour in design representations would affect the scope of a...

UK Referral to CJEU on Unregistered Designs Could Have a Big Impact Post-Brexit

For many years, unregistered Community design (UCD) protection has offered designers a flexible and free form of protection for their designs across the European Union.  However, European case law su...

GIANT Health Event 2024

GJE is excited to announce our participation in the GIANT Health Event 2024, which will be taking place at the Business Design Centre in London 9-10 December. This is Europe’s largest HealthTech eve...

Teva fined €462.6m for misuse of EPO patent system – time to rethink your divisional patent strategy?

In a rare but highly important decision involving European patents, the European Commission has recently found the pharmaceutical company Teva guilty of abusing a dominant position in relation to its ...

A guide to AI and patents – 2024 update

Introduction Much has changed since we first released this guide to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) back in 2019. At that time, ChatGPT did not exist, and ML remained mysterious...

Startup stories: Daphne Technology SA

Alistair Holzhauer-Barrie in conversation with Dr William Ramsay and Janne Berglund GJE works directly with companies across the UK, Europe and further afield.  Some have a long history behind th...

Protecting your materials innovations: patent strategies for growth

GJE is delighted to be partnering with the Henry Royce Institute for this event aimed at materials SMEs. Industry leaders and patent experts Rebecca Matheson and David Lee will provide an in-depth exp...