The arrival of the Coronavirus onto the world’s stage has brought into sharp focus the need for businesses to combine thinking on their feet with innovation and creativity. As we celebrated World Intellectual Property Day on the 26th April, it is a chance to...
National and regional intellectual property offices are, like all of us, feeling the effects of the on-going Covid-19 outbreak. Some of them have now extended deadlines or put into place corresponding measures which are aimed at helping you to weather the storm...
The European Patent Office has announced forthcoming changes to its fees, in line with its usual practice of biennial fee adjustments. The January 2020 edition of the EPO Official Journal sets out further details of the fees that will be applicable from...
The Supreme Court’s judgement in Shanks vs Unilever could lead to increased costs for businesses which benefit from profitable patents. But can these costs be avoided? In the UK, the right to be granted a patent for an invention which is devised in the...
The EPO Boards of Appeal convened recently to offer a final ruling in respect of EP2771468, a patent granted to the Broad Institute in respect of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology. This case has attracted a lot of attention, not least because of the potential...