Matthew Naylor - April 22, 2024 UPC Weekly - Language of proceedings at the UPC 2024 Week 16 This week we focus on the language of proceedings at the UPC, considering when the ...
Matthew Naylor - April 15, 2024 UPC Weekly - Time-dependent transparency of UPC proceedings? 2024 Week 15 The week saw the Court of Appeal issue its decision on public access to court file ...
Matthew Naylor - April 10, 2024 UPC Weekly - Mind your costs 2024 Week 14 The UPC Court of Appeal issued a collection of five appeal decisions on 3 April 2024 ...
Matthew Naylor - April 3, 2024 Public access to UPC proceedings When the UPC was set up, a basic tenet was set out in Article 45 of the UPC Agreement, that the ...
Lucy Coe - March 11, 2024 Challenging patents and other clearance actions in Europe Whether it is to remove a current infringement threat, clear the way to reduce the risk in ...
Eliot Ward - October 4, 2023 UPC at four months old - a review The UPC is now four months old and the Court of First Instance is already quite busy. As of 4 ...
Sean Jauss - September 29, 2023 Beware the front-loaded procedure! The Unified Patent Court (‘UPC’) opened its doors on 1 June 2023. It is a new court in the European ...
Sean Jauss - September 13, 2023 Meet The Team: Sean Jauss, Partner, Solicitor, Litigator, Head of Legal Services As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to head of legal and dispute resolution, Sean Jauss, ...
Tom Furnival - August 10, 2023 UPC as a forum for SEP disputes – Panasonic kick off proceedings With the UPC opening its doors just over two months’ ago, the IP profession has been keenly ...
Tom Furnival - August 7, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? This article is the latest in a series of blogs exploring whether declaring your patent or ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - August 4, 2023 Court of Appeal confirms filing a trade mark cancellation action does not ‘stop the clock’ on acquiescence In our “Pharma trade marks: 2022 case law round up” (written towards the end of November 2022) we ...
Edward Couchman - August 1, 2023 US Supreme Court Upholds Tightening of Patent Enablement Standard In an eagerly awaited judgement, the US Supreme Court has affirmed the standard applied by the ...
Karolina Fryzlewicz - July 19, 2023 How to mobilize your IP rights in the fight against counterfeit goods: Customs Application for Action ‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’ is a motto that does not fare well with intellectual ...
Thomas Wolter - July 6, 2023 Beating the Punch: UPC Protective Letters The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is now operational. As of June 1, 2023, patentees can enforce ...
Sean Jauss - July 5, 2023 Litigation in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) The UPC is a new European patent litigation court. It will provide a single forum for the ...
Sean Jauss - June 27, 2023 UPC Administrative Committee approves Milan as host of the third Central Division court The UPC Administrative Committee has announced that Milan will host the third seat of the UPC’s ...
David Fyfield - June 19, 2023 IPEC Small Claims moving to Manchester The Presiding Judge of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (‘IPEC’) has issued a Practice ...
Jan Rether - May 2, 2023 Meet The Team: Jan Rether, Partner, Attorney at Law As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talked to Jan Rether, partner in the Munich office, about ...
Jacqueline Murphy - November 29, 2022 Patent Litigation Trends in England & Wales - new report We are delighted to release our latest report Patent Litigation Trends in England and Wales.
Maria Hall - October 14, 2022 Robert Watson elected President of FICPI’s Study and Work Committee Partner Robert Watson was elected President of FICPI’s Study and Work Committee (Commission d'Etude ...
Matthew Naylor - September 23, 2022 UPC: Rules of Procedure finalised and in force The Unitary Patent Court now has a revised set of Rules of Procedure. These came into force on 1 ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - September 21, 2022 Non-Fungible Tokens as legal property? The world of cryptocurrency is a fast-moving and complex one. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - June 21, 2022 The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court – renovation, or a new coat of paint? Comments on the current functioning, and the future, of the IPEC.
Sean Jauss - November 12, 2021 LG Chem vs SK Innovation: law & politics in the EV market Sales of electric vehicles are booming. With global stock up from less than 1 million in 2014 to ...
Sean Jauss - August 16, 2021 Podcast with Sean Jauss: the litigation lowdown Sean Jauss, Head of Legal Services at Mewburn Ellis, joins Forward Editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies to ...
Frederick Steele - July 7, 2021 Courts and electronic bundling - bundled into the modern age The pandemic has forced many areas of society and business to adapt, and in the same way that we ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - June 28, 2021 Exhausted by Brexit? On 7 June 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) launched its consultation on the UK’s ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - May 21, 2021 Patent Settlement Agreements with a “Pay for Delay” element – restrictive ‘by object’? Almost two decades ago the European Commission (EC) launched a significant and far-reaching ...
Urs Ferber - March 16, 2021 Patent litigation in Germany - an overview Germany – Europe’s largest economy – is an important market with respect to sales and investments ...
Andy King - March 15, 2021 A perfect score for British Gymnastics at IPEC The national governing body (NGB) for gymnastics in the UK, British Gymnastics, has announced that ...
Edmund Harrison - November 24, 2020 Amazon Pharmacy trade mark battle Amazon’s latest trademark dispute stems from its efforts to launch a new pharmacy service in the ...
Edmund Harrison - September 18, 2020 Bad Faith at the UK IPO – a review of recent cases The recent Sky v SkyKick case has put a renewed focus on the issue of “bad faith” at the UK IPO. ...
Andy King - September 11, 2020 Jaguar Land Rover unable to defend three-dimensional trade mark before the UK High Court UK High Court (HC) upholds decision of UK IPO to refuse registration of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR)’s ...
Karolina Fryzlewicz - August 27, 2020 General Court annuls the decision of EUIPO Board of Appeal in invalidity case involving Louis Vuitton’s well-known chequerboard print General Court (GC) in Case T-105/19 confirms EUIPO Board of Appeal (BoA) is not precluded from ...
Emily Sullivan - August 10, 2020 Is Sky the limit in the David versus Goliath trade mark battle of the last decade? Hilda-Georgina Kwafo-Akoto examines the potential implications of Sky v Skykick.
Edmund Harrison - July 29, 2020 ®egistration and/or use of a trade mark – an automatic defence in the UK to trade mark infringement claims? It is quite a common and perfectly reasonable assumption by some clients that by registering a ...
Sofia Arenal - July 28, 2020 Oreo vs Twins - the biscuit wars Since 2015, two major biscuit manufacturers, have been doing battle, first at the EUIPO and then on ...
Victoria Coleman - July 21, 2020 UK formally withdraws from the UPC In a statement to Parliament on 20 July 2020, the government formally confirmed the UK’s withdrawal ...
Kate O'Rourke - May 6, 2020 Counterfeit contagion: fraudulent activities spread amid coronavirus (COVID-19) The COVID-19 outbreak has caused disruption to manufacturing operations on a global scale. Lockdown ...
Andrew Pitts - April 24, 2020 Governments look to protect companies from IP enforcement during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic A large effort is underway globally to ensure that there are enough mechanical ventilators ...
Emily Sullivan - April 22, 2020 The CJEU delivers the sweet fragrance of victory to Amazon On 2 April 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its preliminary ruling ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - March 3, 2020 What’s in a name? Enforcing trade mark rights and the own name defence Clothing and accessories brand Hugo Boss has recently found itself making headlines, and probably ...
Andy King - February 20, 2020 Sky v Skykick - status quo remains for trade mark owners Background Sky, the TV, broadcasting, media and telecommunications giant, brought infringement and ...