Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Laws

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.

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).

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.

The European Patent Office has recently released the EPO Patent Index for 2024, which sets out key figures and trends in patent activity at the EPO for last year.

Further to this article from Paul Andrews, here, I consider the recent European Patent Office Boards of Appeal decision T 1977/22 and offer some practice guidance on drafting patent claims...

The EPO annually update their guidelines which provide comprehensive information on all aspects of the search, examination, granting and post-granting processes at the EPO.

Representative claims are intended to be a method of dealing effectively with large-scale litigation, which is all the more likely to be generated by rapidly developing...

Infringement proceedings are brought against a defendant in the EU Member State where they are domiciled.

In this article, Rouse global head of enforcement Nick Redfearn a nd consultant Isabel Liang discuss the impact of regulatory inconsistencies and evolving technology on online enforcement...

This weekend, the 12 month grace period for compliance with the new EU cookie rule comes to an end.

Almost a year ago today, new rules came into force concerning the use of cookies on websites by website operators. In the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office gave website operators a one year grace period from enforcement action, during which website operators were expected to audit and revise the use of cookies on their websites, to change the functionality of their websites and to amend their privacy policies to ensure that they were only setting cookies in circumstances which complied w

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