Tom Furnival - October 8, 2024 Most opposed medical device companies at the EPO 2023 Following on from our recent post on the Most Opposed Companies at the EPO 2023 we’ve broken that ...
Tom Furnival - February 14, 2024 The major players in the SEP landscape in Europe Next in our series of blogs, we have investigated the major players in the SEP landscape in Europe.
Tom Furnival - December 19, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? – Part 3 This article continues our series of blogs investigating whether or not declaring your patent or ...
Tom Furnival - September 20, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? – Part 2 This article is the latest in a series of blogs exploring whether declaring your patent or ...
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 ...
Joanna Smith - July 4, 2023 Mewburn Ellis ranked ‘gold tier’ in IAM PATENT 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners 2023 We are delighted to once again be ranked ‘gold tier’ in IAM PATENT 1000: The World’s Leading Patent ...
Tom Furnival - April 13, 2023 Does declaring your patent or application as “essential to a standard” influence the outcome of that patent or application in Europe? This blog is the first in a series in which we explore standards essential patents using patent ...
Tom Furnival - December 24, 2021 Board of Appeal confirms DABUS AI cannot be an inventor for a European patent application On 21st December 2021 the EPO rejected the two appeals filed by Dr Thaler concerning whether an ...
Tom Furnival - September 24, 2021 Qualcomm unveils world's first 5G, AI-enabled, autonomous drone In their latest offering, the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, Qualcomm are cementing themselves as ...
Stephen Gill - May 6, 2021 We helped determine the meaning of “technical feature” Case - T 0258/03 Our extensive arguments in relation to whether a feature is ‘technical’ have ...
Tom Furnival - December 17, 2020 Ericsson accuses Samsung of un-FRAND-ly patent negotiations Following on from Unwired Planet v Huawei, Ericsson have launched a complaint in the US District ...
Tom Furnival - October 6, 2020 Mixed reality: Is it the blend that will boost human wellbeing? From simulating the evaluation of cardiovascular patients to turning CT scans into 3D holograms, ...
Tom Furnival - August 26, 2020 Unwired Planet v Huawei – the Supreme Court’s FRAND(ly) judgement Published Wednesday 26th August 2020, the Supreme Court has handed down their long anticipated ...
Tom Furnival - July 28, 2020 A brighter future for unconventional agriculture? At the cost of more than one sad-looking hanging basket, I have come to understand that plants ...
Tom Furnival - June 9, 2020 Mitsubishi Electric to embark on 5G testing programme In a recent press release Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that Japan’s Ministry of ...
Tom Furnival - April 28, 2020 5G and autonomous vehicles - accelerating data communication speed The amount of data that self-driving cars are predicted to use is massive, really massive. A study ...
Tom Furnival - April 22, 2020 How 3D printing is helping in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) In a crisis which has been defined by its pace of change, 3D printing has become a useful tool in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
