Matthew Naylor - April 9, 2020 Crown Use during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic As discussed in a previous blog, the UK Government has the power to authorise (either in advance, ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - April 9, 2020 Why a "COVID-19” trade mark should be rejected The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly forced us all to adapt our lives and business practices in ...
Callum McGuinn - April 7, 2020 Taking charge - repurposing, recycling and reinventing batteries Innovation in repurposing, recycling and reinventing batteries will be a rich vein of IP, say ...
Camille Terfve - April 6, 2020 What use is computational biology during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic? There is one obvious way in which computational biology is showing its strengths in the current ...
Jacqueline Murphy - April 3, 2020 3D printing community responds to the coronavirus (COVID-19) challenge The coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic has left healthcare systems globally scrambling for much needed ...
Andrew Pitts - April 3, 2020 Patent infringement during a national emergency: a Coronavirus (COVID-19) perspective Recent interesting reports highlight an emerging practice borne out of necessity in which medical ...
Eliot Ward - April 2, 2020 A*STAR and MiRXES step up in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) Our Singapore based-clients A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) and MiRXES are ...
Maria Hall - April 1, 2020 New partner promotion and director appointments We are delighted to announce five new roles across three of our offices.
Anna Mudge - March 31, 2020 Neoantigen-targeted adoptive cell therapies – the next frontier in cancer immunotherapy Cancer immunotherapies harness the power of the patient’s immune system to destroy malignant cells ...
Sean Constable - March 30, 2020 CRISPR used in gene editing clinical trial for first time The revolutionary CRISPR gene editing tool has been used inside the human body for the first time ...
Tanis Keirstead - March 26, 2020 German Constitutional Court Verdict: Stumbling Block or Death Knell for the UPC? On 20 March 2020, three years after the challenge was originally brought, the German Constitutional ...
Eliot Ward - March 25, 2020 Microbiome: Meet your multitude The health and wellbeing of each of us depends upon a number of vast communities of microbes that ...
Tanis Keirstead - March 24, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19): a case study in emerging disease UPDATE 14 APRIL 2022: In his blog Horizons in vaccine production, we explore pressing need to ...
Alison Fugard - March 24, 2020 Pushing Energy Storage to the MX(ene) Batteries are indispensable in modern life. Not only is our reliance on batteries increasing with ...
Lucy White - March 23, 2020 Vaccine platform technologies to combat emerging infectious diseases The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak is now a global pandemic. In a previous post, we discussed the need to act ...
Richard Clegg - March 20, 2020 Changes to our correspondence address In response to the current situation in London due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) we are redirecting all ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - March 19, 2020 Parallel imports of pharmaceuticals – A UK trade mark perspective The UK parallel import licensing scheme lets a medicine authorised in another EU Member State be ...
Camille Terfve - March 18, 2020 Bioinformatics - science's big secret Now deeply woven into the fabric of biological research, bioinformatics has become the secret sauce ...
Willum Wytenburg - March 16, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Extension at the EPO: Not ALL deadlines extended! Part 2 of this blog was published on 17 April 2020. Please read for the latest information. News ...
Seán Walton - March 12, 2020 Oppositions & Appeals: We set the standard for the strawman Case 5 - T 649/92 (EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal, 2 July 1996)
Sean Jauss - March 11, 2020 Making Waves I guess it isn't all that surprising that it was tricky to get Nick Hounsfield and Craig Stoddart ...
Camille Terfve - March 9, 2020 Bioinformatics, data and healthcare: Benefits and challenges of data-driven medicine Algorithms (sometimes collectively referred to as ‘digital health’) are changing the way that ...
Kate O'Rourke - March 9, 2020 When the sky is not the limit: Issues facing businesses when expanding services and products Conflicting views on the legitimacy of filing trademarks with broad lists of goods and services ...
Sarah Kostiuk-Smith - March 6, 2020 Why 'innoversity' is an imperative Andrea Brewster, lead executive officer at IP Inclusive, writes for Forward magazine. She discusses ...
Frances Salisbury - March 6, 2020 Finding the “lost Einsteins” of innovation Sarah Kostiuk-Smith, Partner and European Patent Attorney at Mewburn Ellis, examines the glaring ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - March 5, 2020 Latest in Halloumi trade mark dispute In July 2014, Bulgarian company M. J. Dairies EOOD filed a European Union trade mark application ...
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 ...
Niles Beadman - February 26, 2020 Chemical collaborations: polymer partnerships Collaboration is ubiquitous with successful research. Sharing results generates new leads, sharing ...
Callum McGuinn - February 26, 2020 Lithium-sulfur batteries - an attractive alternative Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are a ubiquitous energy source in modern society, powering our ...
Katherine Green - February 24, 2020 EPO streamlining: the opposition timeline tightens Our analysis of patent oppositions has revealed that early action has become imperative for ...
Anna Mudge - February 21, 2020 2020 BioInfect Conference - tackling antimicrobial resistance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a global threat. No new classes of antibiotics have been ...
Alison Fugard - February 21, 2020 Darobactin – worming our way out of antibiotic resistance Recently, we have been exploring antimicrobial resistance and the possible solutions to this ...
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 ...
Anna Mudge - February 19, 2020 What makes Massachusetts small but mighty? Deirdre Sanders, president of the Boston Patent Law Association and a principle at Hamilton Brook ...
Nick Sutcliffe - February 18, 2020 The evolutionary history of cancer - predicting the disease Cells can acquire the mutations that drive the development of cancer many years before the patient ...
Jacqueline Murphy - February 17, 2020 World Trademark Review 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2020 Mewburn Ellis is delighted to once again be ranked in World Trade Mark Review 1000, the research ...
Camille Terfve - February 14, 2020 Genomics and Biodata in 2020: the future is here! I have been working in the field of bioinformatics/computational biology for 10 years now and have ...
Richard Clegg - February 12, 2020 Oppositions & Appeals: we opened the door for different types of data to support a medical use Case 4 - T 801/06 (EPO Board of Appeal, 4 March 2009)
Thomas Driver - February 6, 2020 Genetic engineering and synthetic biology – making cannabis production greener The therapeutic benefits of medicinal cannabis have been liberally splashed across newspaper ...
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 ...
John Addiss - February 4, 2020 Patenting the Internet of Things – the European perspective It is estimated that by 2025 there will be 26-30 billion devices in the workplace and home equipped ...
Maria Hall - February 3, 2020 Munich office expansion with high-profile lateral hire We are delighted to announce the high-profile appointment of Dr. Thomas Wolter into our Munich ...
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 ...
Katherine Collins - January 29, 2020 Advancements of genetic testing The sequencing of the first human genome in 2003 was a major breakthrough in genomics. While this ...
Simon Kiddle - January 29, 2020 Oppositions & Appeals: We made the case for a new technical effect Case 3 - T 1642/06 (EPO Board of Appeal, 23 August 2007)
Willum Wytenburg - January 27, 2020 EPO announces fee increases from 1 April 2020 In recent times, the European Patent Office (EPO) has increased its official fees every two years. ...
Jane Liu - January 23, 2020 A promising target for new antibiotics In previous blogs we have discussed the global threat of antimicrobial resistance and some of the ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 23, 2020 Welcome to our new website We are delighted to announce the launch of our new website, it incorporates the very best of the ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 23, 2020 Proud Partners of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) We are proud and excited to be starting our second year as an affiliate partner of the Graphene ...
Camille Terfve - January 23, 2020 Simulations in bioinformatics and the G1/19 referral What’s all this about? Claims directed to methods of simulation or modelling of a system or process ...
James Leach - January 20, 2020 AI: Machine learning - the when’s and the how’s of machine learning In our recent post on the use of artificial intelligence in bioinformatics, it was highlighted that ...
Sean Constable - January 17, 2020 EPO Board of Appeal confirms Broad Institute’s CRISPR patent lacks priority and upholds revocation decision In one of the most high profile cases of recent years, a European Patent Office (EPO) Board of ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 8, 2020 JUVE Patent UK ranking 2020 We are delighted to be recommended in JUVE's Patent UK ranking 2020 which recognises patent ...
Camille Terfve - January 2, 2020 AI, deep learning and image analysis in bioinformatics Putting “AI” in the title of your paper, or indeed in the name of your company, seems to have ...
Matthew Smith - December 18, 2019 Graphene Composites: 5 things we can learn from the IP data The European Patent Office (EPO) recently released some initial data about patenting activity in ...
Anna Mudge - December 18, 2019 Will biomarkers come of age? The world’s population is ageing. In 2018, for the first time in history, people aged 65 or above ...
Alison Fugard - December 18, 2019 Sustainability: Graphene offers new opportunities In our blog Green graphene - the pursuit of sustainability we looked at methods for the production ...
Joseph Newcombe - December 17, 2019 The 12 elements of Christmas... 16O Chemistree, 16O Chemistree, how lovely are your elements… As 2019 draws to a close, so too does ...
Camille Terfve - December 16, 2019 Bioinformatics: biological and medical sciences in the age of big data What is bioinformatics? Bioinformatics is a term which we will use as an umbrella to encompass work ...
Camille Terfve - December 16, 2019 Bioinformatics is everywhere! As discussed in a previous post, most types of biological or medical data that can be collected ...
Isobel Stone - December 16, 2019 Collagen scaffolds – the future of tissue engineering? Despite the success of organ transplantation since its inception in the 20th century, people today ...
James Leach - December 13, 2019 AI: Machine learning - what is the machine actually learning? Following on from Richard Johnson’s blog post “Inventive AI: can machines innovate?” we now focus ...
Rachel Oxley - December 11, 2019 Indian Patent Office adopts the Patent Prosecution Highway programme Recently, the Indian Union Cabinet approved a proposal for the Indian Patent Office (IPO) to adopt ...
Eliot Ward - December 6, 2019 Gamma/delta T cells emerge as an untapped resource for cancer immunotherapy Third lymphocyte lineage shows its mettle B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that is ...
Joseph Newcombe - December 5, 2019 3 R's for sustainability of the battery industry Zero-carbon transport and energy production are set to grow under the shadow of global warming and ...
Andy King - December 4, 2019 Rubik’s Cube trade mark in puzzling General Court decision This article was originally published on the CITMA website. View the original article here. Ruling ...
Kate O'Rourke - December 2, 2019 The Aboriginal flag dispute in focus: who owns the right to use? The Australian government is considering whether to compulsorily acquire the rights to use the ...
William Hey - November 28, 2019 Australian innovation patent system - the end is near The Australian innovation patent system is on its last legs, which could spell bad news for SMEs ...
Anna Mudge - November 27, 2019 Biomarkers and precision medicine A biomarker, an amalgamation of the term ‘biological marker’, is a measurable indicator of a ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - November 27, 2019 General Court annuls incorrect interpreted specification of trade mark We are delighted to report that our client Alliance Pharmaceuticals Limited has been successful in ...
Callum McGuinn - November 20, 2019 Lithium-ion batteries - powering the EVs of the future In a recent blog, Eleanor Maciver reviewed a variety of promising “batteries of the future”. Of ...
Matthew Smith - November 18, 2019 Graphene Hackathon 16-17 November 2019 saw a momentous occasion: innovators, creators and thinkers came together for ...
Richard Clegg - November 15, 2019 Meet the team: Richard Clegg, Partner, European Patent Attorney, Patent Attorney Litigator As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Richard Clegg about his journey to becoming a ...
Maria Hall - November 14, 2019 New report launched: EPO Opposition Trends in the Life Sciences Sector Our new research has revealed several recent patterns regarding the European Patent Office ...
Chris Denison - November 12, 2019 Meet the team: Chris Denison, Partner, European Patent Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Chris Denison about his journey to becoming a ...
Callum McGuinn - November 12, 2019 Using IP to secure opportunities in the budding medical cannabis sector The opportunities for innovation in medical cannabis dovetails with the opportunity to obtain ...
Rebecca Tollervey - November 11, 2019 Top tips for patenting antibodies in Europe Antibody development is a mature field of technology. There are relatively few new targets, and the ...
Simon Parry - November 11, 2019 Extreme fast charging – the future of electric vehicle batteries With global deployment now exceeding five million, electric vehicles continue to hold the promise ...
Seán Walton - November 11, 2019 Oppositions a case to remember: we forced a fuller view of technical features Case 1 – T 1859/08 ( EPO Board of Appeal, 5 June 2016)
Simon Kiddle - November 8, 2019 Meet The Team: Simon Kiddle, Partner, European Patent Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Simon Kiddle about his journey to becoming a ...
Andrew Pitts - November 6, 2019 Coffee capsules: greener grounds Large consumer companies are increasingly focusing on reworking their consumable products to be ...
Katherine Green - November 5, 2019 Meet The Team: Katherine Green, Partner, European Patent Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Katherine Green about her journey to becoming a ...
Niles Beadman - October 30, 2019 Printing the unprintable – new technique expands graphene printing to previously unsuitable substrates Printing with graphene is a large and growing field, representing a highly promising range of ...
Camille Terfve - October 30, 2019 EPO Bioinformatics Roadshow There is still a relatively prevalent view in the field of bioinformatics and medical informatics ...
Alexander Cavell - October 30, 2019 Plastics recycling: polymers unzipped As society becomes more aware of the adverse effects of single-use plastics on the environment, ...
Katherine Green - October 30, 2019 Oppositions - a case to remember. Flexibility around added matter Case 2 – T 0099/13 (EPO Board of Appeal, 14 January 2016)
Jacqueline Murphy - October 29, 2019 Chambers & Partners Legal Guide 2019 We are delighted to report that Mewburn Ellis has once again been ranked in Chambers & Partners ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 29, 2019 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2019 We are delighted to have been ranked as a top tier firm in the 2019 edition of Legal 500. This ...
Maria Hall - October 28, 2019 Lateral partner hire into our new Patent Director role We are pleased to announce the lateral hire of Paul Misselbrook, previously a partner at Venner ...
Emily Hayes - October 28, 2019 Meet The Team: Emily Hayes, Partner, European Patent Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Emily Hayes about her journey to becoming a ...
Christoph Moeller - October 26, 2019 FRAND Licensing of SEPs in the age of connected cars Cars are developing more and more into computerized mobile platforms. They relieve the driver of ...
Sean Constable - October 25, 2019 Employing CRISPR to expose ‘hiding’ cancer cells to immunotherapy Immunotherapy employs the patient’s immune system against cancer. There are various types of ...
Thomas Driver - October 23, 2019 Renewable energy – huge potential for biofuel innovation It has been widely reported in the media recently that we need to do more to address the way in ...
Nick Sutcliffe - October 21, 2019 Controlling genes – the new field of epitranscriptomics The human genome contains roughly 20,000 genes that encode proteins. In order for the cells and ...
Andrew Pitts - October 16, 2019 Infecting the infection to tackle the rise in chemical antibiotic resistance In previous blogs we have highlighted how certain families of bacteria are highly resistant to ...
Niles Beadman - October 9, 2019 Consumable consumables: the edible water bottle Throughout the 20th century, plastic has become increasingly prevalent in our everyday lives. To ...
Richard Johnson - October 7, 2019 Inventive AI: can machines innovate? The integration of technology based on artificial intelligence into our everyday lives continues ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - October 2, 2019 5 top tips to prevent trade mark ‘genericide’ Most trade mark owners will be aware that their UK or European Union trade mark registration is ...
Julie Carlisle - September 27, 2019 AMR - a global threat A hot topic on everyone’s lips at the moment is Climate Change and its predicted impact on our way ...
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 ...
Callum McGuinn - September 26, 2019 Budding opportunities for pharma With shifting attitudes surrounding cannabis-based drugs, it is essential to explore the array of ...
Joseph Newcombe - September 25, 2019 From data to drugs - a brief introduction to AI in drug discovery The road to an approved drug is well known to be an arduous journey. Recent estimates put the cost ...
Matthew Smith - September 24, 2019 Strict and inflexible: material claims at the EPO Innovators in advanced materials can face an uphill struggle to get suitable patent protection at ...
Tanis Keirstead - September 19, 2019 Obtaining patent protection for fermentation processes and products – the European perspective Fermented foods have been known for millennia and form an important part of many national cuisines. ...
Eleanor Maciver - September 18, 2019 Batteries for the future: the sky may not be the limit! In an earlier blog Sam Bailey discussed the growing demands for high performance battery ...
Callum McGuinn - September 17, 2019 Cannabis: on to greener pastures? Callum McGuinn, explores the history of social attitudes towards cannabis and asks what the future ...
Christoph Moeller - September 13, 2019 Intermodality: the future of transport? Search the term 'intermodality' and you'll turn up a number of definitions and some fine ...
Simon Kremer - September 11, 2019 Food of the future – regulating and protecting gene-edited crops A recent episode of the BBC World Service’s excellent series “50 Things that made the modern ...
Richard Johnson - September 6, 2019 When AI met EQ Affective computing may be a multi-billion -dollar business, but much of how it works remains ...
Camille Terfve - September 4, 2019 DIY biology dilemma – regulating biohacking Science kits may have inspired generations of children to become scientists, and those grown up ...
Matthew Naylor - August 30, 2019 Printing with graphene: exploring the inks set to unleash graphene's potential Graphene has been widely heralded as a game-changer in the research and development of new ...
Nick Sutcliffe - August 29, 2019 Shifting treatments: cancer as a manageable disease As new treatments drive a shift towards treating cancer as a manageable disease we are seeing ...
Simon Parry - August 20, 2019 Fast times at TBRe: the future of autonomous vehicles In Forward magazine edition 2, we met up with Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) who are driving the ...
Simon Parry - August 19, 2019 Team Bath Racing Electric - zooming through 2019 Each year, over 100 university engineering teams from around the globe travel to Silverstone, ...
Camille Terfve - August 15, 2019 Patentable subject matter in bioinformatics - USPTO’s January 2019 guidance In this article, Paul Liu and Ashley Barton from Duane Morris LLP provided some interesting ...
Sean Jauss - August 13, 2019 Understanding Europe’s trade secret rules Companies invest in developing or acquiring intellectual capital to gain a competitive or ...
Richard Clegg - August 13, 2019 Challenges Post Selex Twenty-five years ago Tuerk and Gold reported the Selex method. Being the first European patent ...
Andy King - August 12, 2019 USPTO changes rules of representation for overseas trade mark applicants The US Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has recently changed the rules regarding the need for ...
Tom Furnival - August 7, 2019 A case in point - Trunki vs Kiddee Rob Law, the founder and chief executive of Magmatic who make the Trunki product, said that the ...
Eleanor Maciver - August 7, 2019 Speeding things up at the EPO There are many reasons why an applicant may wish to speed up the prosecution of an application. For ...
Frances Salisbury - August 5, 2019 The rise of predictive medicine Thanks to significant advances in genetics, we are not only getting better at diagnosing disease, ...
Eleanor Maciver - August 2, 2019 Circular economy: new technologies rise to the challenge In recent months there has been a rapid increase in publicity and public awareness of ...
Matthew Smith - July 31, 2019 Green graphene - the pursuit of sustainability Theoretically, at least, graphene can be produced from any carbon source. While the pursuit of ...
Andy King - July 31, 2019 Cultural (mis)appropriation in trademarks: can (and should) you register culturally sensitive names? Andy King, Partner and Trademark Attorney at Mewburn Ellis, discusses the controversial issue of ...
Christoph Moeller - July 31, 2019 The rise of e-scooters - micromobility gains momentum As congestion in cities rises, existing transportation can no longer keep up with growing ...
Andy King - July 24, 2019 New European spirit drinks regulation EU 2019/787 Dydra Donath breaks down the new regulation the EU has placed on spirit drink trademarks. Article ...
Adam Gregory - July 23, 2019 Cultured meat - food for thought Cultured meat is rapidly emerging alongside plant-and microorganism-based alternative meat products ...
Tom Furnival - July 12, 2019 EPO Quality Report 2018 July has seen the publishing of the European Patent Office’s (EPO) 2018 Quality Report. This is the ...
Emily Hayes - July 9, 2019 New Rules of Procedure at the Boards of Appeal – what does this mean for patentees and opponents? Revised Rules of Procedure at the Boards of Appeal have been approved by The Administrative Council ...
Emily Hayes - July 5, 2019 A Myriad of effects Even though the decision in Myriad is now 6 years old and there have been several follow-on cases, ...
Sam Bailey - June 27, 2019 Charging into the future - the increasing demands on battery technologies Battery technology is an area of constant innovation. For years we have been trying to squeeze a ...
Christoph Moeller - June 26, 2019 Data and security issues in a world of connected cars Mobility patterns are changing and technological innovations in electrification, connectivity and ...
Frances Salisbury - June 26, 2019 Gender medicine – deriving novelty from treating women? When you hear the term “gender medicine”, what comes to mind? For many people, the term is ...
Kate O'Rourke - June 21, 2019 Three-stripes and you’re out: Adidas lose trade mark battle Adidas’ famed three-stripe logo has been deemed as lacking “distinctive character”. The General ...
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 ...
Anna Mudge - June 19, 2019 Tips from the top: inspiring women in technology You may be surprised to hear that only 17% of those working in Technology in the UK are female. ...
Callum McGuinn - June 18, 2019 Medicinal cannabis: recent changes and future innovations Government policy on the prescription of cannabis-derived medicines has undergone some interesting ...
Jacqueline Murphy - June 17, 2019 Managing Intellectual Property: IP Stars 2019 We are delighted to be ranked in Managing Intellectual Property: IP Stars for 2019.
Jacqueline Murphy - June 17, 2019 IAM Patent 1000, 2019 We are delighted to be ranked highly recommended in ‘IAM 1000: The World’s Leading Patent ...
Sean Jauss - June 14, 2019 Conducting due diligence and audits on intellectual property rights You conduct due diligence of intellectual property (IP) rights to check what is being sold or ...
Frances Salisbury - June 4, 2019 EU approves first gene therapy for patients with a mild form of β-Thalassemia Exciting news in the personalised medicine space – the EU has just approved the first gene therapy ...
Graeme Moore - May 29, 2019 The journey of rLoop - a new technology innovation network disrupting the world of transport and IP As a child growing up in Blackburn, near Manchester, UK, Ilyas Vali dreamed of owning a dog. He ...
Christoph Moeller - May 24, 2019 A single to Singapore please: the rise in on-demand bus services Discussion about future mobility tends to focus on the strategies of the major car manufacturers ...
Andy King - May 20, 2019 Glen Buchenbach - Scotch whisky? Originally published in The Trademark Lawyer, Dydra Donath discusses the recent CJEU decision on ...
Julie Carlisle - May 20, 2019 Protecting the ‘Trojan horse’ drug key to keeping a struggling field viable An Expert View column originally published in The Pharma Letter. Read the original article here. ...
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 ...
Simon Kiddle - April 29, 2019 Personalised medicine: patient stratification While the general idea of customising treatment to patients is not new, the degree to which ...
Frances Salisbury - April 15, 2019 Pioneers of precision medicine Breakthroughs in healthcare promise a future in which the individual sits at the centre of medical ...
Jacqueline Murphy - April 10, 2019 AIPLA Women in IP Global Networking Event: Manchester 4 April 2019 On Thursday 4 April, we were delighted to host an American Intellectual Property Law Association ...
Simon Parry - April 5, 2019 Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles: growth and innovation While much attention and noise has surrounded the growth in the number of electric and plug-in ...
Matthew Smith - April 4, 2019 Hydrogen: the storage question There’s a lot to like about hydrogen. It’s light; it’s abundant (at least atomically - water and ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - April 3, 2019 Babybel trade mark blow The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has dealt a blow to the owners of Babybel cheese, ...
Maria Hall - April 1, 2019 Partner promotions and new Director position We are delighted to announce that Sarah Kostiuk-Smith, Jacqueline Pang and Eliot Ward have been ...
Christoph Moeller - March 28, 2019 The road to autonomous In a recent article published in Intellectual Property Magazine, Christoph Moeller explores the ...
Matthew Smith - March 28, 2019 Advanced materials: game-changing graphene In the 15 years since Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated and discovered ...
Julie Carlisle - March 28, 2019 Dosage regimen patents: bruised but not beaten Ruling on the big pharma Actavis v ICOS case, the UK Supreme Court has found ICOS’s Cialis patent ...
Emily Hayes - March 25, 2019 Playing for time: strategies that can help extend a drug's patent life In our new magazine Forward, we interview C Hunter Baker of Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks PC. Hunter ...
Robert Watson - March 21, 2019 Numbering system for re-registered design rights and comparable trade marks The UK enacted the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 which provides the basis for how EU law will be converted ...
Maria Hall - March 11, 2019 Former CITMA President Kate O’Rourke to head our European trade mark services We are delighted to announce that Kate O’Rourke will join the firm on 1 April 2019.
Sean Constable - March 6, 2019 EPO oral proceedings in Haar - do they infringe a party’s right to be heard? A new referral to the Enlarged Board raises this question... The right to be heard under Article ...
Frances Salisbury - February 27, 2019 Bioinformatics Inventions: Patenting challenges at the interface of computer and life sciences We are entering an age of precision medicine, with patients receiving tailored treatments, selected ...
Emma Graham - February 26, 2019 How to patent AI technology at the EPO Once only a figment of the imagination in literature such as Mark Shelley’s Frankenstein, ...
Simon Parry - February 25, 2019 Self-driving vehicles: what do consumers think (and want)? As a survey of 25,000 consumers in 20 countries, and a study that has been conducted annually over ...
Simon Kiddle - February 22, 2019 Is your interest legitimate? New referral to the EBOA on double patenting EPO Board of Appeal 3.3.01 is referring a number of questions regarding double patenting to the ...
Matthew Smith - February 15, 2019 Building an IP portfolio: Nine tips for success Companies need to think carefully about how they protect, manage and leverage the various ...
Thomas Driver - February 6, 2019 Plant related inventions: clarity at last? As we reported previously, EPO Technical Board of Appeal 3304 recently ruled that a controversial ...
Frances Salisbury - February 4, 2019 Fighting cancer with CAR-T therapies In September 2018, NHS England entered into an agreement with Novartis to offer its CAR-T therapy, ...
Jacqueline Murphy - February 4, 2019 WTR 1000 2019 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals We are delighted to have been named as a recommended firm in the World Trademark Review 2019 ...
Emily Hayes - January 30, 2019 Commercialising genomic research in the US: tips for obtaining patent protection The field of genomics has seen incredible advances over the past few decades. Technological ...
Frances Salisbury - January 30, 2019 China - a key player in the global precision medicine race With a growing economy, and a large, ageing population, China is attracting attention from global ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - January 28, 2019 Google issued with €50 million fine by CNIL for data protection practices The French counterpart to our own Information Commissioner, the Commission nationale de ...
Christoph Moeller - January 28, 2019 Autonomous driving: the IP twists and turns Autonomous driving (AD) is on everyone’s lips when it comes to the next big thing in the automotive ...
Simon Parry - January 22, 2019 Autonomous vehicles - the race to innovate The future of the automotive sector will be fundamentally different from its past. Electric ...
Sean Jauss - January 14, 2019 Eight key themes from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference I’ve spent the last few days talking with biotech entrepreneurs, VC fund managers and lawyers ...
Graeme Moore - December 13, 2018 Blockchain: the next patent boom Emma Graham and Graeme Moore attended the EPO’s “Patenting Blockchain” conference in The Hague – ...
Frances Salisbury - December 13, 2018 Precision medicine: ethics, regulation and patent law New genomic and proteomic analysis technologies allow for diagnosis and prognosis of patients with ...
Christoph Moeller - December 11, 2018 Future mobility: the new direction of transport Massive social, economic and technology trends are converging to change mobility - how we move ...
Frances Salisbury - December 10, 2018 Plant related inventions: the saga continues We may be approaching the end of the year, but the saga of patents for plant related inventions at ...
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 ...
Richard Clegg - December 10, 2018 Clovis Oncology success in European Opposition Proceedings related to Rubraca® Clovis Oncology has announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) last week upheld claims of ...
Rebecca Anderson-Smith - December 6, 2018 Significant blow to Cadbury in purple trade mark battle Cadbury has been dealt a blow by the Court of Appeal in its battle to maintain its trade mark for ...
Nick Sutcliffe - November 14, 2018 Supreme Court decision signals bad news for patent holders The UK Supreme Court issued its decision today on the Warner Lambert vs Generics (UK) Ltd t/a ...
Shaun Harvey - November 8, 2018 Our Cambridge Office moves to prestigious Innovation Park Our Cambridge office moved on 26 November to the prestigious St John’s Innovation Park at the ...
Frances Salisbury - October 31, 2018 Precision Medicine: the next revolution in healthcare In recent years, we have witnessed a remarkable healthcare revolution. Thanks to advances in ...
Richard Clegg - October 31, 2018 Morphosis: creating and nurturing biotech start-ups in Singapore We understand that early-stage biotech companies do not have it easy. It is a long road from ...
Simon Parry - October 30, 2018 Team Bath Racing Electric: racing to success Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) achieved their best ever ranking at the 2018 Formula Student UK ...
Matthew Smith - October 29, 2018 Development in the war on superbugs The spread of antibiotic-resistant infections is one of the most serious threats in modern ...
Matthew Smith - October 25, 2018 Graphene: a whole new '2D world' Graphene has been heralded as a game changer in the research and development of new materials since ...
Graeme Moore - October 19, 2018 Patenting board games and puzzles Quite a lot of people think of new games and puzzles, and wonder whether patenting would help them ...
Matthew Smith - October 8, 2018 JIPA 2018 European Seminar The Japanese Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) has been promoting fair and effective ...
Seán Walton - October 3, 2018 The pioneering work of Professor Sir Greg Winter Professor Sir Greg Winter’s pioneering work using phage display for the directed evolution of ...
Sean Constable - October 2, 2018 Life as a trainee patent attorney Sean Constable, trainee patent attorney in our life sciences patent team, joined Mewburn Ellis as ...
Shaun Harvey - October 1, 2018 Our growth story The last 12 months have seen a period of remarkable growth and development for the firm. In ...
Robert Watson - September 27, 2018 Navigating the Brexit landscape: patents The existing European patent system was unaffected by the UK leaving the EU earlier in 2020, and by ...
Jacqueline Pang - July 20, 2018 Roger Federer in trade mark dispute with Nike Roger Federer recently left Nike and signed a deal with Uniqlo reportedly worth $30million per ...
Maria Hall - July 9, 2018 Our new brand: the forward-looking IP firm Mewburn Ellis is a name synonymous with quality in the IP space. We are also seen as a firm that ...
Simon Kremer - April 30, 2018 Changes to inter partes review system for challenging granted patents Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two important decisions relating to inter partes review ...
Richard Johnson - April 26, 2018 ECJ provides clarity on the application of Article 8(1) of the Community Design Regulation Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), recently handed down a decision in ...
Anna Mudge - April 20, 2018 Celebrating women working in IP in the North West On Thursday 19 April, we were proud hosts of an American Intellectual Property Law Association ...
Callum Anderson - August 1, 2017 UK Supreme Court Establishes Doctrine of Equivalents in Actavis v Lilly In many jurisdictions a product or process may be held to infringe even though it falls outside the ...
