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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...
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...
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...
The European Patent Office unveils the top 10 innovators of the first standalone edition of the Young Inventors Prize 2025 in Reykjavik
The Young Inventors Prize recognizes innovators under 30 who are tackling Global Challenges through groundbreaking science and technology. 10 exceptional innovators, chosen by an independent jury from over 450 talented candidates, are redefining sustainability,...
Mewburn Ellis appoints Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer
IP firm announces new role alongside launch of Inclusion & Diversity Collaboration Group Intellectual property firm Mewburn Ellis recently announced the appointment of its Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, Robert Andrews, as well as the launch of its...
A new Code of Conduct for the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
A new Code of Conduct for the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office will enter into force on 1 July 2022. The new Code of Conduct contains standards for judicial conduct concerning, in particular, independence, integrity, impartiality, loyalty, diligence and...
New LexisNexis report highlights world’s top-performing innovation sectors and companies
‘Innovation Momentum: The Global Top 100’ is the first patent-based report to measure short-term innovation momentum, highlighting innovators with exceptional technological relevance for the future. Highlights Inaugural report points to how global themes such as the...
Final preparations for Europe’s new Unified Patent Court begin
Austria deposited its instrument of ratification on the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PAP-Protocol) on 18 January 2022. The PAP-Protocol has now entered into force. This means that the provisional application...
Supreme Court of India further extended the suspension of limitation period/timelines under general and special laws. LexOrbis reports
In view of the spike in new cases of Covid-19, the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India has once again suspended limitation periods and timelines under all general and special laws. As per the Order dated January 10, 2022 passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in an...
Open Invention Network expands patent protection covered under largest multilateral cross license in history
Funded by Google, IBM / Red Hat, NEC, Philips, Sony and Toyota, Open Invention Network was created to safeguard Linux from organizations looking to hinder open source growth and adoption through patent activities. Today, more than 3,600 business – developers,...
Crowell & Moring Releases Litigation Forecast 2022: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year
Crowell & Moring has published Litigation Forecast 2022: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year. The tenth-annual Litigation Forecast focuses on the intersection of technology, litigation, and intellectual property, including significant changes...
Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office. Cloudflare reports
The classic children’s fairy tale The Three Billy Goats Gruff tells the story of three goats trying to cross a bridge to a field of yummy grass, despite the monstrous troll that lives underneath the bridge and threatens to eat them. To beat the troll, the goats played...
Covid sparks surge in innovation with 5,070 new patent applications: Juliet Redhouse comments
5,070 global patent applications* relating to Covid-19 have been published since the start of the pandemic, shows a new analysis by leading intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire. The most common type of patent application relates to Covid testing and...
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