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UPC: No Need To Separate Multi-Defendant Proceedings To Protect Sensitive Information

In a recent procedural order issued by the Mannheim Local Division of the UPC (UPC_CFI_819/2024), the Court rejected an application made by three co-defendants requesting a separation of proceedings into three distinct strands of litigation...

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Marks & Clerk

Has The UPC Just Taken Its First Steps In Developing Its Own Doctrine Of Equivalents?

In a recent decision on the merits issued by the Mannheim Local Division of the UPC (UPC_CFI_471/2023), the Court dismissed an infringement action concerning EP 2479680...

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

Tang Gold May Be A Sweet Mandarin, But It's A Sour Result For Asda

Asda's application to stay court proceedings in a Plant Variety Right (PVR) dispute has been dismissed; infringement proceedings will go ahead, despite pending PVR invalidity proceedings for Tang Gold.

United Kingdom IP

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Murgitroyd

Thaler's AI Patent Application Confirmed As Deemed Withdrawn In The UK

The High Court of England and Wales has dismissed Dr Thaler's appeal from the decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) that his patent application...

United Kingdom IP

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UPC Grants First UK Injunction

United Kingdom IP

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Potter Clarkson

Description Amendment Requirements At EPO (Video)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

The Importance Of IPR Valuation

United Kingdom IP

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Novagraaf Group

Patent Applications For Computer Games At The UKIPO And EPO

United Kingdom IP

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Murgitroyd

Providing Enabling Disclosure For AI Inventions At The EPO (VIdeo)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Precision Medicine Patenting Of Known Drugs For Known Indications At The EPO (Video)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Novelty Over Clinical Trials At The EPO (Video)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

UKIPO Launches Major Consultation On UK Design Law Reform

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

Your Step By Step Guide To The UK's Important Design Law Consultation

United Kingdom IP

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Gowling WLG

Enforcing SEPs In Key Southeast Asian Markets

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Rouse

Evolving Regulation For CO₂ Storage: A Call For Evidence From Ofgem

United Kingdom Environment

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

New Water (Special Measures) Act Measures Come Into Force

United Kingdom Environment

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK Immigration Salary List 2025

United Kingdom Immigration

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Richmond Chambers Immigration Barristers

FinTech Global FS Regulatory Round-up - W/e 22 August 2025

Worldwide Technology

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK CPS And SFO Issue Updated Corporate Prosecution Guidance: What Corporates Need To Know

United Kingdom Commercial

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K&L Gates LLP

Regulatory Exclusivity For Medicinal Products In Europe (Video)

8 years of data exclusivity, followed by 2 years of market exclusivity.

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Claiming Priority (Video)

To validly claim priority in a European patent application, four conditions must be met...

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Patenting Polymorphs At The EPO (Video)

Prior art must necessarily lead to the claimed polymorph to be novelty destroying...

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Computer-implemented Inventions (Video)

A claim must have technical character—even one technical feature is enough.

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Antibodies (Video)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Added Matter – Part 2 (Video)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

Added Matter – Part 1 (Video)

United Kingdom IP

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HGF Ltd

UPC Court Of Appeal Confirms That Late-filed Costs Applications Are Inadmissible And In Refusing Reference To The CJEU Provides Guidance On What It Will Refer

United Kingdom IP

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Dr Michelle Pratt In Conversation With Dr James Short

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

Powering The Future: How Echion's Technology Is Accelerating Heavy Industry Electrification

United Kingdom Energy

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Marks & Clerk

The Price Of Non-payment: CJEU Upholds Cancellation Of Plant Variety Right

European Union IP

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J A Kemp LLP

Neurotech Patents In Europe: Methods, Medical Devices, And The EPC Exclusion

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

From STEM To IP: Why I Chose The Patent Profession

United Kingdom IP

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Murgitroyd

1.2bn Reasons To Protect Your Intellectual Property

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

The Price Of Non-payment: CJEU Upholds Cancellation Of Plant Variety Right

A recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) underscores the need for Community Plant Variety Rights (CPVR) holders to respond promptly to communications from the Community Plant Variety Office...

European Union IP

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J A Kemp LLP

Neurotech Patents In Europe: Methods, Medical Devices, And The EPC Exclusion

The field of neurotechnology is rapidly evolving, bringing together advances in neuroscience, engineering, materials science, and computing. These innovations hold the potential to transform...

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

From STEM To IP: Why I Chose The Patent Profession

I am currently a 3rd year Electronics and Electrical Engineering student, studying at Lancaster University with a strong interest in robotics and autonomous vehicle technologies.

United Kingdom IP

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Murgitroyd

1.2bn Reasons To Protect Your Intellectual Property

An Oxford University spin-out has been acquired by Tokyo-based Terumo Corporation, for a staggering £1.2bn. OrganOx's "metra" device enables donated organs to stay "alive" outside the body for up to 24hrs, and is said to have saved more than 6,000 lives to date.

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

A Day In The Life Of A Patent Attorney Intern

United Kingdom IP

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Murgitroyd

Plausibility, Implausibility And Arbitrary Selections – The Patent Bargain As The Guiding Light Under UK Law

The "patent bargain" is the foundation of patent law – in exchange for a 20 year monopoly, the inventor discloses their invention to the world.

United Kingdom IP

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Can Space Agriculture Tackle The Food Crisis And How Is IP Enforced In Space?

Space agriculture (or as you may know it, space-based AgTech, astroagriculture, exo-agriculture, off-earth farming or extraterrestrial food systems) refers to agricultural technologies and systems developed or tested in space.

United Kingdom IP

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Potter Clarkson

The Recipe For Success: How Food Science Innovators Can Use IP To Retain Their Competitive Edge

Trends in the food and beverage industry can move quickly, and food science and development is a vibrant field of technology with over £5.8bn of investment in 2024, and around 10,000 new products launched annually.

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Boult Wade Tennant

A Snapshot Of The Semaglutide Patent Landscape

Obesity affects over 1.9 billion people worldwide. In 2024, global spend on anti-obesity medication exceeded $30 billion for the first time, which is over a ten-fold increase since 2020...

United Kingdom IP

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Maucher Jenkins

EU Customs Recordals

European Union IP

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HGF Ltd

Will The UPC Guide The EPO When It Comes To Description Amendments?

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

Setting Your IP Strategy - Part II: Monetisation Of IP

United Kingdom IP

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Keltie LLP

Rouse In Profile: Juan Samuel Loyola

United Kingdom IP

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Rouse

Can 3D Printing Save Our Oceans?

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

Striking A New Chord: Will The UK Harmonise With The EPO On Excluded Matter?

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

UK Court Of Appeal Upholds Moderna MRNA Patent Against Pfizer/BioNTech

United Kingdom IP

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Goodwin Procter LLP

Generative AI Designs New Antibiotics - But Who Owns The Invention?

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

Claim Interpretation At The EPO After The Recent Case Law (G 1/24)

United Kingdom IP

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Boult Wade Tennant

Blockchain And Web3 As A Platform For Innovation – What Are The IP Challenges?

United Kingdom IP

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Murgitroyd

Injunction Covering The UK Highlights The Reach Of The UPC's Long Arm

United Kingdom IP

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J A Kemp LLP

Driving Innovation: IP Protection In The Era Of Automotive Transformation

United Kingdom Transport

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Murgitroyd

AI Versus Cleantech - Collusion Or Collision?

United Kingdom Technology

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Marks & Clerk

Potter Clarkson Launches Landmark Patent Landscape Analysis Of The SynBio Revolution

United Kingdom IP

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Potter Clarkson

Can CRISPR And RNAi Help Us Develop New And More Sustainable Fruits And Vegetables?

United Kingdom Healthcare

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Potter Clarkson

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Antibodies (Video)

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HGF Ltd

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

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Keltie LLP

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

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Bardehle Pagenberg

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

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J A Kemp LLP

UPC Unpacked: Special Edition (Video)

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