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Patenting Trends In Circular Plastics

As environmental concerns and legislative pressures mount globally, innovation in plastics recycling and sustainable materials is no longer a niche pursuit; it is a commercial imperative

United Kingdom IP

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Keltie LLP

G1/24 - Interpreting How The EPO Interprets Claims

G1/24 is a decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) following a referral from the Technical Board of Appeal in case T 439/22.

United Kingdom IP

MJ

Maucher Jenkins

G1/24 - Small, But Perfectly Formed?

The decision in G1/24 (Heated Aerosol) has now issued, and given the important principle of patent law involved, its brevity is impressive. At twelve pages in total including five pages of actual decision...

United Kingdom IP

KL

Keltie LLP

Umbro Decision - UK Supreme Court Confirms Post-Sale Confusion Alone Can Be Enough To Find Trade Mark Infringement

Yesterday saw the decision of the UK Supreme Court in Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL v Dream Pairs Europe Inc and another [2025] UKSC 25.

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

Webinar: The New Era Of Design Protection

European Union IP

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Debunking Common Myths About The UPC And UPs: Some Basics And Not-so-basics

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Boult Wade Tennant

Choosing The Right Kind Of Mark: Nature Versus Use

European Union IP

KL

Keltie LLP

Temporal Scope Of Jurisdiction Clarified By UPC Court Of Appeal

United Kingdom IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

Gather Round The Campfire, Everybody – We're Going To Read A Patent Specification (To The Tune Of G 1/24)

United Kingdom IP

LS

Lewis Silkin

Copyrightability Of AI Generated Works

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

AI And Data Analytics In Food Tech

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

G1/24 Explained: The Description And Figures Must Be Considered In Claim Interpretation

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

Honda Launches (And Lands) Rocket Test (Video)

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

€90 Million In Counterfeit Food And Drink Seized: A Wake-Up Call For IP And Public Health In The EU

United Kingdom IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

Could Heart Transplant Waiting Lists Soon Be A Thing Of The Past?

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

Arts & Culture Guide (Video)

United Kingdom Immigration

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Latitude Law

A Look Back: The Guernsey Funds Forum 2025 (Video)

Guernsey Finance

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Guernsey Finance

Higgs LLP In Conversation With Nicholas Georgevic, Chairman Of Scrivens (Video)

United Kingdom Litigation

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Higgs LLP

The Long-awaited Draft Framework For The UK Regulatory Regime For Cryptoassets Has Arrived

United Kingdom Finance

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

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Licensing & Syndication

US Court Of Appeals Denies Copyright Claim For "Eleanor", The Ford Mustang

The legal saga surrounding "Eleanor", the Ford Mustang from "Gone in 60 Seconds", has been rumbling on for over 20 years.

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

In Discussion With Our Licensing Team

Jo Soar, Lesley Harper and Caroline Twist are our Licensing Dream Team after moving to Rothera Bray en masse in May 2024. They are based at our Nottingham office in the Lace Market...

United Kingdom IP

RB

Rothera Bray

UK Court Rules On Reverse Engineering Of Mainframe Software

IBM UK ("IBM") successfully enforced the terms of a mainframe license against the defendants who had created a competing software product.

United Kingdom IP

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Jones Day

UK's Collective Licensing Initiative Aims To Harmonize AI And Copyright Law

United Kingdom IP

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

Could This Be The Ai-nswer? A Collective Copyright Licence For Generative AI Training

United Kingdom IP

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K&L Gates LLP

Mastering SEP Licensing And The FRAND Framework

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

东南亚的标准必要专利：新兴标准必要专利竞争领域中公平、合理和无歧视（FRAND）承诺的解读

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Rouse

Aesthetics And The Licensing Of Non-Surgical Cosmetic Procedures

United Kingdom Healthcare

RB

Rothera Bray

EU Standards Essential Patents (SEP) Proposal Withdrawn

European Union IP

KL

Keltie LLP

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Patent

Patenting Trends In Circular Plastics

As environmental concerns and legislative pressures mount globally, innovation in plastics recycling and sustainable materials is no longer a niche pursuit; it is a commercial imperative

United Kingdom IP

KL

Keltie LLP

G1/24 - Interpreting How The EPO Interprets Claims

G1/24 is a decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) following a referral from the Technical Board of Appeal in case T 439/22.

United Kingdom IP

MJ

Maucher Jenkins

G1/24 - Small, But Perfectly Formed?

The decision in G1/24 (Heated Aerosol) has now issued, and given the important principle of patent law involved, its brevity is impressive. At twelve pages in total including five pages of actual decision...

United Kingdom IP

KL

Keltie LLP

Debunking Common Myths About The UPC And UPs: Some Basics And Not-so-basics

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Boult Wade Tennant

Temporal Scope Of Jurisdiction Clarified By UPC Court Of Appeal

United Kingdom IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

Gather Round The Campfire, Everybody – We're Going To Read A Patent Specification (To The Tune Of G 1/24)

United Kingdom IP

LS

Lewis Silkin

AI And Data Analytics In Food Tech

United Kingdom IP

B

Boult Wade Tennant

G1/24 Explained: The Description And Figures Must Be Considered In Claim Interpretation

United Kingdom IP

B

Boult Wade Tennant

Honda Launches (And Lands) Rocket Test (Video)

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

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Trade Secrets

M&C In The News - From Trend To Target: Protecting Start-ups From Copycats

For many businesses, the prospect of overnight virality is a powerful dream.

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

Beyond The Headlines: DeepSeek And The Ongoing Legal Risks Of Open-Source AI

As AI adoption accelerates across Asia following the launch of DeepSeek, a growing number of AI developers are continuing to turn to open-source models...

United Kingdom Technology

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Withers LLP

UPC: No Need To Hear Court Appointed Expert Or Bailiff As Witness, Written Reports On Seizure Provide Sufficient Evidence

The UPCs' Paris Local Division had granted an ex-parte seizure order to C-KORE Systems Limited (Claimant) against Novawell (Defendant) on 14th November 2023.

United Kingdom IP

MC

Marks & Clerk

Protecting Trade Secrets In The Age Of AI: Lessons Learnt From The Theft Of Google Trade Secrets

United Kingdom IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

Building An Exitable Company

United Kingdom Commercial

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IR Global

Setting Your IP Strategy – Part I: Prioritisation Of IP In AI

United Kingdom IP

KL

Keltie LLP

Trade Secrets: The Value In Enforcement

United Kingdom IP

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Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

GlobalFoundries and IBM settle Their Legal Battle Over Trade Secrets And Breach Of Contract

United Kingdom IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

Watch Now: Setting Your IP Strategy For 2025 – Strategic Patent And Trade Secret Portfolio Development (Video)

United Kingdom IP

KL

Keltie LLP

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Biotech, Life Sciences & Healthcare

Home Health Diagnostics, Microfluidics & IP

The concept of self-conducted diagnostic tests, administered by patients in their own home, would likely have been thought completely preposterous 100 years ago – conjuring-up images of an array of test-tubes, flasks and Bunsen burners.

United Kingdom IP

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ClearView IP

Supplementary Protection Certificates: The Court Of Justice Agrees With Potter Clarkson That SPCs With Negative Terms Are Acceptable

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled yesterday in an important case (C-125/10, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt), relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs).

European Union IP

PC

Potter Clarkson

HGS v Eli Lilly: Bar For Industrial Applicability Of Gene Patents In UK Lowered And Realigned With The EPO

On 2 November 2011, the UK Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords) handed down its decision in Human Genome Sciences Inc (HGS) v Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly), which was primarily concerned with the issue of industrial applicability of claimed biological material.

United Kingdom Healthcare

PC

Potter Clarkson

A Step Back From The Patent Cliff? The Court Of Justice Of The EU Rules On SPCs

European Union IP

MB

Mayer Brown

UK Supreme Court Lowers The Threshold For Biologics Patents

United Kingdom IP

MB

Mayer Brown

European Court Of Justice Clamps Down On Human Embryonic Stem Cell Patents

United Kingdom IP

HL

HGF Ltd

Advocate General's Opinion Concerning the EU Harmonised Test For Granting An Extension Of The Term Of A Patent For Medicinal Products

European Union Healthcare

MB

Mayer Brown

Update on the Patent Box consultation

United Kingdom Healthcare

MB

Mayer Brown

IP Snapshot April 2011

United Kingdom IP

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CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

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Latest Videos

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Brand Security In A Modern World: Author Q&A - Kirsten Gilbert (Video)

MC

Marks & Clerk

Trade Mark Round Up Report 2025 (Video)

LS

Lewis Silkin

Watch Now: Setting Your IP Strategy For 2025 – Strategic Patent And Trade Secret Portfolio Development (Video)

KL

Keltie LLP

IP Insights: Are UPC Injunctions Subject To Proportionality Considerations? (2024) (Video)

BP

Bardehle Pagenberg

Drafting And Prosecuting Applications For Polymorphs Of Drug Compounds At The EPO (Video)

JA

J A Kemp LLP

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