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Mewburn Ellis ranked ‘gold tier’ in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2025
Joanna Smith - June 3, 2025

Mewburn Ellis ranked ‘gold tier’ in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2025

We are delighted to once again be ranked ‘gold tier’ in IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent ...

Crafting IP Strategies for Innovative Biotechs
Adam Gregory - April 3, 2025

Crafting IP Strategies for Innovative Biotechs

Following his conversation with John Joson Ng for Nucleate Singapore Pulse, we speak to Adam ...

In vivo Cell Therapy: Breaking Free of the Chains of Ex Vivo Engineering
Adam Gregory - March 19, 2025

In vivo Cell Therapy: Breaking Free of the Chains of Ex Vivo Engineering

In vivo cell therapy is emerging as a groundbreaking approach to reduce the cost and expand the ...

Hummingbird Bioscience’s multi-payload ADC technology licensed by Callio Therapeutics
Adam Gregory - March 7, 2025

Hummingbird Bioscience’s multi-payload ADC technology licensed by Callio Therapeutics

We are delighted to congratulate our client Hummingbird Bioscience on the successful out-licensing ...

A Meaty Victory for Impossible Foods
Adam Gregory - January 30, 2025

A Meaty Victory for Impossible Foods

In decision T 0425/23 of 20 December 2024, the European Patent Office (EPO) Board of Appeal (BoA) ...

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2025
Joanna Smith - October 2, 2024

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2025

We are extremely proud to once again be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in ...

‘It’s a 50% reduction in ageing’
Adam Gregory - August 13, 2024

‘It’s a 50% reduction in ageing’

Singapore startup VVB Bio promises a dramatic reduction in ageing via a single jab. Now out of ...

Mewburn Ellis is proud to have worked on 26 of the 100 top-selling pharmaceuticals of 2023
Adam Gregory - July 15, 2024

Mewburn Ellis is proud to have worked on 26 of the 100 top-selling pharmaceuticals of 2023

Mewburn Ellis is proud to work with some of the world’s most globally significant pharmaceuticals, ...

Podcast with Adam Gregory: protecting innovations in the biotech space
Adam Gregory - June 17, 2024

Podcast with Adam Gregory: protecting innovations in the biotech space

Adam Gregory joins John Joson Ng on Nucleate Singapore’s Pulse podcast where he highlights success ...

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2024
Joanna Smith - October 5, 2023

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2024

We are extremely proud to once again be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in ...

VC tips for SMEs — how do VCs evaluate the value of intellectual property?
Adam Gregory - August 11, 2023

VC tips for SMEs — how do VCs evaluate the value of intellectual property?

As part of a series in which we ask leading venture capitalists to answer a question of fundamental ...

Cell-cultivated chicken approved for sale in US
Adam Gregory - June 22, 2023

Cell-cultivated chicken approved for sale in US

On Wednesday 21 June 2023, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the sale of ...

Come and join us for a ‘Celebration of all things Singapore’
Jacqueline Murphy - March 7, 2023

Come and join us for a ‘Celebration of all things Singapore’

We are excited to be in Singapore for INTA 2023 and very much hope that you can join us at our ...

Coming soon to a plate near you? US Food and Drug Administration issue first step towards approval for cell-based meat
Adam Gregory - November 18, 2022

Coming soon to a plate near you? US Food and Drug Administration issue first step towards approval for cell-based meat

For over a decade, the promise of cultivated meat, grown using cell-culture techniques ex vivo and ...

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2023
Jacqueline Murphy - October 14, 2022

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2023

We are extremely proud to be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in the 2023 ...

Mewburn Ellis is proud to work on 19 of the 50 top-selling pharmaceuticals of 2021
Adam Gregory - July 22, 2022

Mewburn Ellis is proud to work on 19 of the 50 top-selling pharmaceuticals of 2021

2021 was a year of unprecedented success for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, with the ...

The search for more sustainable food sources
Rhiannon Wescott - May 3, 2022

The search for more sustainable food sources

So much more than nutrition, food can evoke pleasure and excitement and bring people together. And ...

Podcast with Guy Heathers: Singapore's innovation community — trends and technology
Adam Gregory - March 31, 2022

Podcast with Guy Heathers: Singapore's innovation community — trends and technology

Having previously spoken to Guy Heathers, Singapore biotech entrepreneur, about the development of ...

Five patenting pitfalls in future food (and how to avoid them)
Adam Gregory - March 30, 2022

Five patenting pitfalls in future food (and how to avoid them)

In our series on future food, we have explored the exciting innovations in areas such as cultured ...

New Green IP Report launched
Jacqueline Murphy - October 26, 2021

New Green IP Report launched

To coincide with the launch of COP26 we have released a new report into Green IP. Our report ...

Three ways future food technologies can improve the sustainability of animal feed
Adam Gregory - September 17, 2021

Three ways future food technologies can improve the sustainability of animal feed

Like many others, lockdown has changed not only the daily rhythm in my home but the members of the ...

IP priorities for future food companies
Adam Gregory - September 9, 2021

IP priorities for future food companies

The future of food is a hot topic. Whether it is cellular agriculture, next-generation meat ...

Fish-free-fish: making a splash with cellular aquaculture
Adam Gregory - April 19, 2021

Fish-free-fish: making a splash with cellular aquaculture

Whilst the oceans remain as vast and seemingly inexhaustible as ever, the old adage that “there’s ...

Jim Mellon: the reluctant gradualist taking on ageing
Adam Gregory - April 19, 2021

Jim Mellon: the reluctant gradualist taking on ageing

Forward editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies learns how we might all be able to live long and prosper from ...

SARS-CoV-2 variants – reasons to be optimistic
Adam Gregory - January 29, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 variants – reasons to be optimistic

In recent weeks and months, several highly-transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that ...

Conscious consumers deserve better than burgers
Adam Gregory - January 29, 2021

Conscious consumers deserve better than burgers

As part of our Thought Leaders series, Director and Co-founder of Gaia Foods, Vinayaka Srinivas, ...

First regulatory approval for cultured meat – a major milestone
Adam Gregory - December 2, 2020

First regulatory approval for cultured meat – a major milestone

In December 2020, US company Eat Just were granted regulatory approval by the Singapore Food Agency ...

Hummingbird Bioscience to start clinical trials for SARS-CoV-2-targeted antibody, HMBD-115
Adam Gregory - October 27, 2020

Hummingbird Bioscience to start clinical trials for SARS-CoV-2-targeted antibody, HMBD-115

Our client, Hummingbird Bioscience, has received regulatory authorisation to initiate clinical ...

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2021
Jacqueline Murphy - October 1, 2020

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2021

We are delighted to be ranked top tier for our patent practice in the 2021 edition of The Legal ...

Trust at the dinner table: public perception and regulation of novel food technologies
Adam Gregory - September 14, 2020

Trust at the dinner table: public perception and regulation of novel food technologies

The history of humanity is the history of food technology. From the moment early hominids developed ...

Beyond cultured meat: Cellular Agriculture and animal products
Adam Gregory - August 27, 2020

Beyond cultured meat: Cellular Agriculture and animal products

In recent months, lab-grown meat is getting a lot of attention. As environmental concerns and ...

Is the future of meat animal-free?
Adam Gregory - August 24, 2020

Is the future of meat animal-free?

Compelling advancements in cellular science could soon see us choosing to abandon animal ...

Cellular Agriculture – forecasting innovation
Adam Gregory - August 3, 2020

Cellular Agriculture – forecasting innovation

In their recent article in Nature Food, high-profile figures in the field of Cellular Agriculture – ...

New coronavirus (COVID-19) test allows rapid detection of neutralising antibodies
Adam Gregory - May 15, 2020

New coronavirus (COVID-19) test allows rapid detection of neutralising antibodies

Our client, Duke-NUS, has helped to develop a new, rapid serological test for determining whether ...

Antibody tests for prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 – key tools for monitoring and managing the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Adam Gregory - April 14, 2020

Antibody tests for prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 – key tools for monitoring and managing the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

In recent weeks there’s been a lot of discussion in the media of antibody tests relating to ...

New partner promotion and director appointments
Maria Hall - April 1, 2020

New partner promotion and director appointments

We are delighted to announce five new roles across three of our offices.

Enleofen strikes Singapore’s biggest ever biotech deal
Adam Gregory - February 4, 2020

Enleofen strikes Singapore’s biggest ever biotech deal

In January it was announced that global pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has acquired ...

Farming the great indoors
Adam Gregory - January 30, 2020

Farming the great indoors

When you think of a farm, what comes to mind? Rolling fields of green new growth, and carpets of ...

T cell engagers - dark horses of immunotherapy
Adam Gregory - September 26, 2019

T cell engagers - dark horses of immunotherapy

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology has attracted a lot of attention and investment in ...

Cultured meat - food for thought
Adam Gregory - July 23, 2019

Cultured meat - food for thought

Cultured meat is rapidly emerging alongside plant-and microorganism-based alternative meat products ...

Singapore biotech start-ups: the importance of patent protection
Adam Gregory - June 21, 2019

Singapore biotech start-ups: the importance of patent protection

Singapore’s biotech industry plays a key role in shaping the country’s future economy. This is ...

Precision therapeutics for the precision medicine era
Adam Gregory - May 17, 2019

Precision therapeutics for the precision medicine era

In recent years we have seen dramatic advances in our understanding of the intricate and dynamic ...

Patent protection: five tips for biotech start-ups
Adam Gregory - December 10, 2018

Patent protection: five tips for biotech start-ups

Early-stage biotech companies are often founded based on the exciting results of pre-clinical ...

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