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G 2/21: Likely Consequences for Parties Wishing to Rely on Post-Published Evidence

Introduction G 2/21 is the referral pending before the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO regarding whether post-published evidence can be used to prove the existence of a technical effect when proof...

Scaling from Lab Bench to Market: The Advantages of Patent Rights in Biomedical, Medical and Bio-Engineering

Developing and launching new technology in challenging sectors such as biomedical engineering, medical engineering and bio-engineering faces a number of challenges, particularly for start-ups. In addi...

China Joins the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs

In a move that has long been expected, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced that China will join the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs ...

Unified Patent Court Brought to Life

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has started running due to Austria completing the ratifications of the UPC Agreement (UPCA) and Protocol on the Provisional Application of the UPC Agreement (PPA). This ...

Brand Value? Sweet Like Chocolate

Even in recent challenging times, the value of food & drink brands continues to climb. In 2021 Bain Capital acquired Valeo Foods in a deal valued at around £1.5bn. No doubt, Bain Capital was keen...

The Computer-Aided Surgery Innovation Landscape: 2021 Update

In November 2020 we looked at looked at global patent filing statistics for the preceding twenty years in the computer-aided surgery sector in order to identify the key trends in the field. At the tim...

Can Innovation Help Alleviate Personnel Shortages in Food Production?

If you drive a car in the UK, especially in the South East, you were probably affected by the fuel supply crisis in September 2021. Petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying following concer...

Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent Gathering Speed

Following Germany bringing legislation into force to ratify the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA) in August, as Robert Skone James reported here, Germany took another step bringing the Unif...

Black History Month: How Closing The Racial Data Gap in Clinical Trials is Driving New Innovation

As patent attorneys, we are interested in clinical trials for a number of reasons.  They form the backbone of medical research, and provide valuable insights which lead to approved treatments, in...

Agri-Tech, The Internet of Things, and Getting Ahead of the Curve

With global population surging and with increasing pressures, both legislative and environmental, brought on by climate change, the agriculture sector has been forced to adapt to a new series of chall...