UK Government decides not to reduce or limit R&D tax credits
The UK Government’s 2024 Budget, while squarely focused on tax increases and revenue measures, suggests a pragmatic recognition by the new Labour administration that sustainable tax receipts are ideally underpinned by economic growth and wealth creation. In a global...
Calcutta High Court issues IP Division Rules
The Calcutta High Court recently adopted the much-awaited Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2023 (Calcutta IPD Rules), making it the third High Court in India, after Delhi and Madras, to implement specialized regulations for IP matters. While the Calcutta...
How I would use AI to steal your design… and what you can do about it
To protect our designs, ideas, and innovations, we must think like an infringer. May AI allow bad actors to knock off your design… and get away with it? First, we need to understand AI-assisted design. Like all new tech, AI will follow Amara’s law. We overestimate the...
AstraZeneca challenges Axelpharm’s cancer drug patent
AstraZeneca is a world-renowned pharmaceutical company. It owns many patents in Russia and takes steps to protect them against encroachers. Its medicines are exempt from sanctions because they are mainly used for the life-preserving treatment of cancer. Axelpharm, a...
Jon Wright returns to Sterne Kessler in new role as General Counsel
Washington, D.C. – September 4, 2024 – Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox today announced that Jon Wright has returned to the firm as General Counsel. Wright was previously a director in the firm’s Trial & Appellate and Electronics Practice Groups and co-chair...
ERS Genomics and Medicines Discovery Catapult sign CRISPR/Cas9 license agreement
The partnership provides Medicines Discovery Catapult access to CRISPR gene editing technology across a broad range of drug discovery applications Dublin, Ireland, and Cheshire, UK - 4 September 2024 - ERS Genomics Limited (ERS), the CRISPR licensing Company,...
Haseltine Lake Kempner welcomes new partner to Chemistry and Life Sciences team
HLK is delighted to welcome Catherine Coombes, who joins the firm as a partner in its Chemistry and Life Sciences (CLS) team. Coombes will be based in the firm’s Leeds office. Coombes has spent 20 years in private practice protecting clients’ technology across life...
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Carbon capture patents rise by 65% to record high as companies seek to cut carbon footprint
73% of global patent application publications in 2021/22 were Chinese in origin UK lags behind other nations with only three patent applications published in the last year There have been a record 411 global patent applications for carbon capture and storage...
Guess who? Controversy over deepfake technology
ITV’s new show ‘Deep Fake Neighbour Wars’ has recently received a lot of media attention due to its use of deepfake technology. The show uses images of celebrities and superimposes those images onto the faces of the UKs best impressionists. The impressionists then act...
Blank Rome adds experienced patent law Partner Walter Davis to growing IP Litigation Group in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. — Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Walter D. Davis, Jr. has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice group as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Walter has significant experience in all facets of patent law,...
Bill Lister retires from Appleyard Lees partnership
Appleyard Lees partner Bill Lister, a solicitor, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and CMC Registered Mediator, retired from the partnership on 31 March 2023. Bill will continue to work as a consultant for the firm. Bill joined the partnership in 2018, a pivotal time in...
ForrestBrown expands Patent Box support to help businesses make the most of their IP
Increased focus responds to client demand for support across the innovation lifecycle Rise in Corporation Tax from 1 April 2023 makes Patent Box relief even more generous 3 April 2023 – ForrestBrown, the UK’s leading research and development (R&D) tax specialist,...
RPC hires Dr Matthew Jones as Partner to join its award-winning IP and technology practice
International law firm RPC announced today that intellectual property (IP) lawyer and patent specialist Dr Matthew Jones has joined the firm's award-winning IP and technology practice as a Partner in London. Jones joins RPC from boutique patent firm EIP, where he has...
Powell Gilbert promotes TMT-focused IP litigator to partnership
Rajvinder Jagdev has a computer science background and focuses on IP disputes in the TMT sector Specialist IP law firm Powell Gilbert LLP today announces that Of Counsel Rajvinder Jagdev has been promoted to its partnership, bringing the total number of partners at...
EIP Litigation head moves to new role as chairman
– EIP, the international high-value patents firm, has announced changes to its leadership. From 1 April 2023 current Head of EIP Litigation, Gary Moss, will move to become Chairman of EIP. Litigation partners Andrew Sharples and Robert Lundie Smith will become...
Ojam Bullrich Flanzbaum is now a certified B Corporation
Ojam Bullrich Flanzbaum is the leading company in intellectual and industrial property and intangible asset management in Argentina, and has been certified as a B Corporation by B Lab, the global non-profit organization. As highlighted by Juan Carlos Ojam, managing...
MoU between IPO and CMA
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has agreed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today. This MoU reiterates the commitment of the IPO and CMA to furthering their strong co-operation, and work closely in areas...
Clarivate announces Gordon Samson as President of Intellectual Property
Naming the first of three business leaders for its newly created market segments Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust, today announced that Gordon Samson, currently Chief Product Officer, has...
Evolving scope of patent claim amendment
The recent orders from the Delhi High court clarify that the claims can be amended by including the features from the description, thus redefining the permissibility of the claim amendments by the Indian Patent Act. The Delhi High Court, Intellectual Property Division...
Innovation stays strong: patent applications in Europe continue to grow in 2022
Patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) up 2.5% despite global uncertainties Record demand for patents reflects attractiveness of European market Digital and clean-energy technologies on the rise China and US are main engines of growth in patent...
Anaqua provides platform for intellectual property management to Fujitsu
BOSTON, March 28, 2023 – Anaqua, the leading innovation and intellectual property (IP) management technology provider, today announced that information and communications technology company Fujitsu has adopted Anaqua’s AQX platform to optimize the digital management...
Circle joins LOT Network to protect digital asset products from patent litigation
BOSTON, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Circle Internet Financial, a global digital financial technology firm and the issuer of USD Coin (USDC), today announced it has joined LOT Network, a non-profit global community of companies that protects its members against...
SoftSmile honored as 2023 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award Winner
SoftSmile’s first product, VISION, ranks as a top AI-driven solution that is democratizing orthodontics NEW YORK - March 23, 2023 - SoftSmile, a technology company focused on delivering best in class software to the dental and orthodontic industry, today was named a...
Is ChatGPT for patent lawyers?
When I was young, Steve Jobs famously called computers “bicycles for the mind,” and the metaphor helped explain why computers are so useful to human beings. Bicycles help humans conserve energy from one step to the next, which is why they are the best walkers in the...
A surge in innovation in the Femtech sector is set to revolutionise healthcare for women
And this is just the beginning says Mewburn Ellis report LONDON – International IP firm Mewburn Ellis today publishes its latest report which explores some of the exciting new technologies that have entered the Femtech market in recent years, as well as analyzing the...
Alice Motions at the pleading stage in patent infringement litigations in the United States
Defendants in patent infringement cases filed in the United States by non-practicing entities (commonly known as “patent trolls”) typically move to dismiss such cases pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12 on patent eligibility grounds. The recent decision...
Mewburn Ellis backs up strong growth with four partner promotions
Leading European Intellectual Property firm announces the promotion of two equity partners, two new partners along with a new IP Director whilst strengthening its legal team in Munich with new Senior Associate LONDON – Intellectual Property firm Mewburn Ellis today...
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