Matthew Naylor - January 20, 2025 UPC Weekly - Damages and added matter at the UPC 2025 Week 3 The UPC has most definitely kicked into gear. Each week there are increasing numbers of ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - August 27, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Preliminary Injunctions – Background, Trends and Lessons Learned 2024 Week 34 No-one wants to be on the receiving end of a UPC preliminary injunction. The tussles ...
Sean Jauss - August 12, 2024 UPC Weekly - Now let’s talk about saisies 2024 Week 32 There is no discovery at the UPC.
Sean Jauss - June 3, 2024 1st Anniversary of the UPC – some stats! The Unified Patent Court (UPC) celebrated its first anniversary on 1 June 2024. The Court is busy. ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 18, 2024 Design Rights: A powerful tool in the IP armoury We are pleased to launch our latest special report Design Rights: A powerful tool in the IP ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sean Jauss - March 14, 2023 Trade Secrets in practice As part of our Thought Leaders series, Mewburn Ellis Partner and Head of Legal Services Sean Jauss ...
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.
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.
Caroline Hart - February 28, 2022 Maximising the value of design rights From SMEs to multinationals, from car manufacturers to fashion houses, the value of design rights ...
Karolina Fryzlewicz - November 17, 2021 How to avoid a “fashion” faux pas on The Legal Runway Hilda-Georgina, examines the rulings in Original Beauty Technology & Ors v G4k Fashion Ltd ...
David Fyfield - September 28, 2021 WHOIS the infringer - identifying the registrant of a domain name Disputes concerning domain names, linked to cybersquatting, fraud, counterfeiting, and other forms ...
Kate O'Rourke - September 14, 2021 Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights X Fashion Industry: Fight fake fashion Combatting counterfeit goods is a key commercial and strategic consideration in the fashion ...
Karolina Fryzlewicz - September 10, 2021 Intellectual Property Rights X Fashion Shows: Brand protection on the “legal runway” In the fashion industry, intellectual property rights such as trade marks, copyright and design ...
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 ...
Andy King - July 12, 2021 UEFA v The (European) Super League – intellectual property rights on the legal playing field On 18 April 2021, the proposal for a new mid-week competition for European football sent shockwaves ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sean Jauss - February 4, 2021 Protecting your intellectual property: top tips for start-ups It is common currency that intellectual property (IP) is an important and valuable asset of any ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - November 6, 2020 COVID-19 rescue act or major overhaul of the UK insolvency framework? As we go into England’s second national lockdown of this COVID-19 pandemic, greater numbers of ...
Kate O'Rourke - August 11, 2020 Team Home or Team Office: the challenges of a COVID-19 secure workplace Solicitor Hilda-Georgina Kwafo-Akoto discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic could be a catalyst for ...
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.
Sean Jauss - August 4, 2020 Who has the power? We recently discussed signing documents and deeds using e-signatures as a result of the COVID-19 ...
Sean Jauss - July 14, 2020 String theory: how bundling IP rights strengthens bioinformatics products As part of our Thought Leaders series, Mewburn Ellis Partner Sean Jauss explores how bundling IP ...
Sean Jauss - June 24, 2020 A shake up in legal advice privilege: protect your client-lawyer communications! Legal privilege is not an area of law that changes much. But the recent case of CAA v Jet2.com has ...
Frederick Steele - May 22, 2020 Electronic signatures, “the new normal”? The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social distancing has meant that in-person signing of documents ...
Sean Jauss - May 20, 2020 Fashion and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: brand protection should never go out of style The fashion industry like all other industries is navigating unprecedented economic challenges. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sean Jauss - August 13, 2019 Understanding Europe’s trade secret rules Companies invest in developing or acquiring intellectual capital to gain a competitive or ...
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 ...
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 ...
