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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 ...

Mewburn Ellis is delighted to partner with Oxfordshire Greentech on the Climate Solutions Conference
Eleanor Maciver - February 2, 2024

Mewburn Ellis is delighted to partner with Oxfordshire Greentech on the Climate Solutions Conference

Mewburn Ellis is delighted to partner with Oxfordshire Greentech on the Climate Solutions ...

In person event - Circular Economy: Ideas to Business, Oxford, 7 December 2023
Jacqueline Murphy - October 23, 2023

In person event - Circular Economy: Ideas to Business, Oxford, 7 December 2023

Mewburn Ellis is delighted to be partnering with Oxfordshire Greentech to present an exciting in ...

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 ...

Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the UKIPO’s “Green Channel”
Jacqueline Murphy - July 18, 2023

Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the UKIPO’s “Green Channel”

We are pleased to launch our latest report Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the ...

In person event - Circular Economy: Ideas to Business, Cambridge, 13 September
Jacqueline Murphy - June 26, 2023

In person event - Circular Economy: Ideas to Business, Cambridge, 13 September

Mewburn Ellis is delighted to be partnering with Cambridge Cleantech to present an exciting in ...

Green Tech: Making IP Part of Your Toolkit - Webinar
Jacqueline Murphy - May 16, 2023

Green Tech: Making IP Part of Your Toolkit - Webinar

On Wednesday 21 June, we are delighted to be hosting in partnership with Oxfordshire Greentech a ...

Operating in the circular economy: From idea to Business – our co-hosted event with Oxfordshire Greentech
Jacqueline Murphy - April 19, 2023

Operating in the circular economy: From idea to Business – our co-hosted event with Oxfordshire Greentech

On Wednesday 22 March, we were delighted to co-host an in-person event with Oxfordshire Greentech ...

Reborn! How a radical process will be able to give new life to unwanted boats
Paul Dunne - March 21, 2023

Reborn! How a radical process will be able to give new life to unwanted boats

There are around a million boats in the UK and eventually they will all need to be recycled. The ...

Plastics and climate change - a solution and a problem
Paul Dunne - February 13, 2023

Plastics and climate change - a solution and a problem

Plastics have the potential to play a crucial role in emission-saving technologies – from the ...

Meet the team: Paul Dunne, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Chemistry team, Bristol
Paul Dunne - November 1, 2022

Meet the team: Paul Dunne, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Chemistry team, Bristol

As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Paul Dunne about his journey to becoming a patent ...

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 ...

Life in plastic
Alison Fugard - May 12, 2022

Life in plastic

Plastic is prevalent in all areas of society, as is the growing awareness of its environmental ...

Planet-saving partnerships: collaborating on sustainable innovation
Paul Dunne - October 27, 2021

Planet-saving partnerships: collaborating on sustainable innovation

In the race to bring forward sustainable solutions, worlds are colliding and ideas are flowing. As ...

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 ...

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2022
Jacqueline Murphy - September 30, 2021

Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2022

Mewburn Ellis is proud to be ranked top tier for our patent and trade mark practices in the 2022 ...

Single-use plastics: Is this the last straw?
Paul Dunne - November 9, 2020

Single-use plastics: Is this the last straw?

As part of our Thought Leaders series, Mewburn Ellis Partner Paul Dunne explores how we can reshape ...

Circular economy: rethinking composite plastic packaging
Paul Dunne - October 20, 2020

Circular economy: rethinking composite plastic packaging

As we move towards a circular economy, there is a huge incentive for chemists to find innovative ...

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 ...

Meet the material: Robotic soft matter
Paul Dunne - August 24, 2020

Meet the material: Robotic soft matter

Inspired by muscles and activated by light, this lifelike and autonomous material could have ...

Patenting bioplastics
Paul Dunne - June 23, 2020

Patenting bioplastics

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Circular economy: the solution to plastic pollution?
Paul Dunne - April 15, 2020

Circular economy: the solution to plastic pollution?

The ascent of plastic from its Bakelite beginnings to the workhorse material of the modern day has ...

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