Certainty for businesses and choice for consumers as UK maintains IP rights regime
No legislative changes mean businesses can continue operating under the existing exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime without any new requirements. The UK+ regime protects creators and innovators while ensuring fair competition in the marketplace and...
Intellectual Property Salary Survey 2025
Caselton Clark shares a special edition of its 2025 Intellectual Property Salary Survey, providing a comprehensive analysis of salary and benefits trends over the past 10 years. The report covers various levels of seniority across the UK and parts of Europe. To access...
Crystal Crop v. Safex: Delhi High Court on Doctrine of Equivalents and prosecution history estoppel in patent disputes
In Crystal Crop Protection Ltd. v. Safex Chemicals India Ltd. & Ors., CS(COMM) 196/2024, Neutral Citation: 2025:DHC:3382, decided on May 7, 2025 by Hon’ble Mr Justice Amit Bansal of the Delhi High Court, the court refused to grant an interim injunction, holding...
Potter Clarkson appointed in landmark UK AI inventorship appeal
Appeal to be heard at the High Court in July 2025 could have major commercial ramifications for patents created with AI assistance or wholly by AI models. London - May 8, 2025 – Potter Clarkson, a leading intellectual property law firm, has been appointed by US-based...
New partner for Withers & Rogers LLP supports ongoing expansion
European intellectual property firm Withers & Rogers has appointed Simon Bradbury as a partner to support the ongoing expansion of the firm’s pharmaceutical and cell and gene therapy groups. Having previously worked in-house at a global corporation, Bradbury is...
12 attorneys elevated to Finnegan partnership
WASHINGTON, DC — Finnegan is delighted to welcome 12 new attorneys to the partnership. Spanning varied practices, this year’s class deepens the bench of the firm’s diverse intellectual property capabilities. Their experience includes counseling and oppositions and...
Collyer Bristow enhances commercial and IP offering with strategic senior hire
Law firm Collyer Bristow is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Coe as a Partner in its Corporate & Commercial team. Coe joins the team from nationwide firm Clarke Willmott. Coe advises clients on a range of complex commercial matters across a number of...
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International leading digital disruption expert joins Browne Jacobson
Law firm Browne Jacobson has appointed digital disruption legal expert Mike Rebeiro as strategic advisor to its UK & Ireland (UK&I) IP and Technology team. Mike who was the former Global Head of technology and Innovation at Norton Rose Fulbright, is a highly...
Retail and cloud services leader Amazon joins the Open Invention Network
From banking and communications networks to retail, e-commerce and entertainment platforms, all the technology rests on, or is comprised of, code from Linux and other open source projects. The cloud services that are powering an increasingly digitized lifestyle are...
Design applications hit record high of 67,000 as Brexit prompts rush to protect design rights
Businesses must now apply for protection for designs separately under UK and EU systems Failure to protect design rights could see businesses miss out on growth opportunities The number of applications made to the Intellectual Property Office to protect product design...
Less than 5% of patent claims filed reach court says new report
New report from Mewburn Ellis A report released by IP firm Mewburn Ellis on patent litigation trends in England and Wales, has found that less than five percent of patent claims filed in court reach trial. The report examines data collected between 1 January 2020 and...
Perkins Coie strengthens national patent litigation practice with four prominent partners
Stefani Shanberg, Nathan Sabri, Veronica Ascarrunz, and Robin Brewer join the firm in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 1, 2022) - Perkins Coie announced today the addition of a prominent four-partner patent litigation...
New Unified Patent Court may tilt playing field in favor of ‘patent trolls’
Short response deadlines mean alleged infringers may have less time to prepare defense The rules of the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) may well tilt the playing field in favor of ‘patent trolls’, by increasing the difficulties in defending intellectual property...
Morrison Foerster boosts intellectual property capability in London with team hire led by Partner Steven James
Team addition brings new contentious intellectual property capability in London; further strengthens firm’s premier global IP offering following recent announcement of California-based litigation boutique Durie Tangri joining Morrison Foerster LONDON (NOVEMBER 28,...
Ukrainian IP system is under reform
Legal news The reform of the intellectual property industry in Ukraine has reached its final stage. The Government of Ukraine continues the implementation of new requirements of Ukrainian legislation in the field of intellectual property to harmonize national...
Unified Patent Court could lead to businesses losing control of their patents without action now, say IP lawyers
The new Unified Patent Court (UPC)could lead to UK businesses losing control of their patents across Europe unless they take action now to opt out of the new system, says Mathys & Squire, the leading intellectual property law firm. The UPC is a new court which...
Greenberg Traurig’s Salt Lake City office nearly doubles with leading IP team
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has hired a group of 19 Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice attorneys and patent agents, more than half of whom will be in the firm’s Salt Lake City office, which first opened less than three years ago. The...
Clarivate partners with IPwe to enhance AI and blockchain patent solutions
Partnership to lead the digital transformation of intellectual property and intangible assets by leveraging Clarivate data to power IPwe’s Smart Intangible Asset Management platform Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and...
EIP and Amar Goussu Staub launch UPC litigation powerhouse
Today EIP Amar, an alliance between EIP and Amar Goussu Staub, launches to support clients with high stakes litigation before the new Unified Patent Court (UPC). Together, the two companies will form a UPC litigation powerhouse by combining their expertise to advise...
U.S. Bank becomes latest financial institution to hinder patent risk in open source by joining Open Invention Network
U.S. Bancorp, with approximately 70,000 employees and $601 billion in assets, is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, better known as U.S. Bank. It is the largest regional bank in the United States by assets and an industry leader in creating...
New research identifies the six competencies that every General Counsel should possess… and they may not be what you think.
For the first time, a White Paper has been published that reveals the attributes, qualities, and competencies that every General Counsel should possess. The research was carried out by market-leading executive search consultancy Laurence Simons, a team of experts with...
Court of Appeal makes plea for legally enforceable arbitration for FRAND disputes
In the ongoing complex litigation between Optis Cellular Technology LLC and Apple Inc., the Court of Appeal ([2022] EWCA Civ 1411) has upheld the High Court’s findings that implementers of standard-essential patents (SEPs) cannot refuse to accept a FRAND license and...
Perkins Coie congratulates 22 new Partners
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that 22 counsel have been promoted to partner effective January 1, 2023. The firm’s new partner class of 2023 includes the following intellectual property attorneys: Lindsay B. Allen (Washington, D.C.) is a member of the Trademark,...
Gender bias in patent prosecution
There is a gender gap in patent law. We’ve known for a long time that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM). In the USA over half of PhDs are awarded to women, and yet STEM remains male-dominated. Women for only 30% of...
HLK’s Daniel Chew makes history as he’s elected first Asian President of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
Daniel Chew, Partner and Head of Asia Group at HLK and one of the profession’s top mobile and telecoms experts, has been elected as the first Asian President of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA). Daniel was elected at the Institute’s 140th Annual...
Hexos IP expands operational leadership by hiring Kent Robbins as COO
Hexos IP is thrilled to announce that Kent Robbins will be joining our company as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Having served in many senior leadership roles in Business Development and Sales (as well as serving as Captain within the United States Marine Corps), Kent...
Experienced patent litigator Dr. Anette Gärtner joins new Eversheds Sutherland office in Frankfurt
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anette Gärtner to Partner in its soon-to-be-opened Frankfurt office. Anette will be joining the firm’s commercial practice from Reed Smith, where she has been partner for the past seven years. As a...
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