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Joanna Smith - March 27, 2025 WIPR UK Trade Mark Rankings 2025 We are delighted to once again be ranked Highly Recommended for Trade Marks in WIPR UK Trade Mark ...
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Rebecca Anderson-Smith - December 17, 2024 Court of Appeal overturns decision in POST MILK GENERATION The primary issue in this case is whether use of the word milk in the mark POST MILK GENERATION for ...
Andy King - November 27, 2024 Bad Faith or Business Strategy? Sky vs. SkyKick Sets a Precedent The long running saga of the battle between Sky Ltd (“Sky”) and SkyKick UK Ltd (“SkyKick”) is ...
Emily Lythell - November 21, 2024 Resistance is futile – how new tech tackles AMR Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) refers to the ability of microorganisms—bacteria, viruses, fungi, ...
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Kara Quast - November 7, 2024 Large Language Models in Robotics Progress in training large language models (LLMs) in the last few years for natural language ...
Matthew Naylor - September 23, 2024 UPC Weekly - The first UPC SEP injunction 2024 Week 38 On 13 September 2024, the UPC Munich Local Division handed down its decision in the ...
Charlotte Lynch - September 17, 2024 How could NASA tech benefit postmenopausal women? Over 14,000 postmenopausal women in England may benefit from the recent approval of new ...
Fay Allen - September 12, 2024 Dr. Maike de la Roche: immunotherapy & thriving as a woman in science The world-renowned pioneer in immunotherapy tells Mewburn Ellis about her work with CAR-T cells, ...
Frances Salisbury - September 10, 2024 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome awareness month September is PCOS awareness month. PCOS, which stands for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, is a hormonal ...
Natalie Vaughan - September 9, 2024 BoobyBiome: replicating the breast milk microbiome Breast milk is abundant with essential microbes. Meet the startup mapping the microbiome, to ensure ...
Sarah Harvey - August 23, 2024 The Science of Success: Optimising Female Athletic Performance For the first time in Olympic history, the Paris 2024 Games achieved gender parity among athletes. ...
Amelia Jones - August 21, 2024 Editing in situ: synthetic gene editing tools delivered straight to the gut The critical, yet delicate balance of the microbiome in maintaining health and influencing disease ...
Emily Sullivan - August 14, 2024 Cipla Europe NV v Glaxo Group Ltd: can a 3D trade mark be distinctive? Trade mark proceedings can often feel like never-ending stories. In this case, Glaxo Group Ltd. ...
Lauren Woolley - August 6, 2024 Cell-to-cup: a new way to make an old favourite? For those of us who can’t function without our morning coffee, there have been some promising ...
Lesley Gardner - July 18, 2024 National Paralegal Awards Finalists 2024 We are extremely proud to announce our finalists in the National Paralegal Awards 2024 which ...
Charlotte Lynch - June 4, 2024 The HPV vaccine: the global success of prioritising women’s health Let's talk about the HPV vaccine - a revolutionary drug and global strategy that proved how ...
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Andrew Mears - April 26, 2024 Medical devices: Insights through IP - new report 2024 We are delighted to release our latest report Medical devices: Insights through IP which looks at ...
Fay Allen - March 27, 2024 Endometriosis - research, diagnosis and treatment progress March is Endometriosis Action Month, and this year’s focus is on raising awareness.
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 ...
Rebecca Brooks - February 29, 2024 Updates to the Guidelines for Examination at the EPO The Guidelines for Examination at the EPO (which will be referred to as “the Guidelines” in this ...
Sarah Morrow - February 29, 2024 UKIPO Green Technology Report 2024 When the UK set a legally binding target to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, it was ...
Jacqueline Murphy - February 29, 2024 Women in IP Global Networking Event 18 April 2024 We are delighted to be hosting an in person global networking and discussion event to celebrate ...
Isobel Fisher - February 22, 2024 Colony picking robot expands our knowledge of human gut microbiome The human microbiome is very diverse. A typical gut microbiome can contain hundreds or even ...
Natascha Newbold - February 19, 2024 Meet the Team: Natascha Newbold, IP Support, Trade Mark Paralegal As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to trade mark paralegal Natascha Newbold about her ...
Maria Hall - February 15, 2024 Mewburn Ellis achieves Menopause Friendly Accreditation We are proud to have been awarded the Menopause Friendly Accreditation, established by Henpicked: ...
Amelia Jones - February 7, 2024 Fertile Ground: Tapping into the Potential of the Female Microbiome Healthcare systems around the world have historically been designed by men, with “white males” ...
Frances Salisbury - February 6, 2024 Meet our Women’s Champion: Fran Salisbury Even the most progressive firm can improve working life for women.
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Sophie Chua - January 16, 2024 Gigafactories & IP: Protecting the processes that power the future As the use of electric vehicles (EVs) becomes increasingly prevalent, demand for batteries is set ...
Naomi Armitage - January 11, 2024 Meet The Team: Naomi Armitage, IP Support Services Trainer As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to IP Support Services Trainer Naomi Armitage about ...
Shajila Aziz - December 6, 2023 Meet The Team: Shajila Aziz, Patent Administrator As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to patent administrator, Shajila Aziz about her ...
Tamara Rubery - November 22, 2023 Meet The Team: Tamara Rubery, Senior HR Manager As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to senior HR manager, Tamara Rubery about being ...
Rachel Collier - November 9, 2023 Meet the Team: Rachel Collier, IP Support, Paralegal As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to paralegal Rachel Collier about her commitment to ...
Jacqueline Murphy - November 8, 2023 Validating European patents outside Europe - the Validation State system We are pleased to launch our latest report Validating European patents outside Europe - the ...
Lesley Gardner - October 23, 2023 Meet the Team: Lesley Gardner, Business Services, Head of IP Support Services As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Head of IP Support Services Lesley Gardner about ...
Lucy Coe - October 11, 2023 Meet the Team: Lucy Coe, Senior Associate, Patent Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talked to Lucy Coe about her passion for science, the ...
Sydney Phillips - September 27, 2023 Meet The Team: Sydney Phillips, IP Support Services, Paralegal As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to patent paralegal, Sydney Phillips about time ...
Kirsty Morris - September 7, 2023 Meet The Team: Kirsty Morris, IP Support Services, Patent Administrator As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to patent administrator, Kirsty Morris about her ...
Maria Hall - August 29, 2023 Meet The Team: Maria Hall, Business Services, Chief M&BD Officer, Community Champion As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to chief marketing and business development officer ...
Kimberley Harding - August 16, 2023 Meet The Team: Kimberley Harding, IP Support, Paralegal As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to paralegal, Kim Harding about studying for patent ...
Clare James - August 2, 2023 Meet The Team: Clare James, Business Services, Executive Assistant As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Clare James, EA to the Mewburn Ellis management ...
Lesley Gardner - July 26, 2023 National Paralegal Awards Finalists 2023 We are extremely proud to announce our finalists in the National Paralegal Awards 2023 which ...
Eleanor Gooding - July 18, 2023 Meet The Team: Ellie Gooding, IP Support, Paralegal As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to paralegal, Ellie Gooding about being part of a ...
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 ...
Louise Atkins - July 10, 2023 Mewburn Ellis lace up for Endure24 in support of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices Mewburn Ellis showed steely determination to complete a 24-hour running challenge, raising £2,500 ...
Isobel Fisher - June 22, 2023 One giant leap for plant-kind: engineering plants for Mars If humans are going to live on Mars one day, we need to work out how to grow plants there. Plants ...
Debbie Williams - June 21, 2023 Meet The Team: Debbie Williams, IP Support, Paralegal As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to paralegal Debbie Williams about developing her ...
Cat Bate - June 8, 2023 Meet The Team: Cat Bate, Business Services, Learning & Development Manager As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to learning and development manager, Cat Bate about ...
Kate O'Rourke - May 11, 2023 Meet The Team: Kate O'Rourke, Partner, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, Kate O’Rourke ...
Eliot Ward - May 4, 2023 The ball is rolling at the FDA for microbiome therapies The FDA was busy last week! Off the back of the first approval for faecal microbiota transplant ...
Anna Mudge - May 4, 2023 The allogeneic advantage Bespoke cell therapies are expensive and time-consuming. Now allogeneic cell treatments offer a ...
Joanna Smith - April 26, 2023 MIP IP STARS: Top 250 Women in IP 2023 Congratulations to Kate O'Rourke who has been recognised in Managing IP: IP STARS Top 250 Women in ...
Darena Slavova - April 25, 2023 EPO to Abolish “10-Day Rule” from 01 November 2023 Key Points: the “10-day rule” will be abolished and will not be applied in respect of European ...
Alison Fugard - April 14, 2023 “Wood”n’t it be nice? - Turning over a new leaf in wood-based packaging For years, we have been aware of the need to reduce our reliance on plastic. But there is a reason ...
Anna Mudge - March 21, 2023 Advanced Therapies Congress 2023 - five key themes Anna Mudge enjoyed a bustling two days at the Advanced Therapies Congress 2023 in London. Nine ...
Eleanor Maciver - March 15, 2023 Mycelium, a natural wonder In an ever more eco-aware world, Ecovative is creating foam, fashion, face masks and food from ...
Jacqueline Murphy - March 14, 2023 Femtech: a growth industry - new special report We are delighted to release our latest report Femtech: a growth industry.
Frances Salisbury - March 9, 2023 Mewburn Ellis celebrates International Women's Day 2023 8 March 2023 was International Women's Day (IWD) which looks to celebrate women's achievements, ...
Frances Salisbury - February 10, 2023 Women and Girls in Science Day: Mewburn Ellis celebrates women in STEM fields Saturday 11 February 2023 marks the 8th International Women and Girls in Science Day.
Emma Graham - February 2, 2023 Meet the team: Emma Graham, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Engineering team, London As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Emma Graham about her love of patent drafting, ...
Emma Graham - February 1, 2023 Should I file third party observations? A study of the consequences of filing third party observations (TPOs) in the MedTech sector and the ...
Camille Terfve - January 31, 2023 Meet the team: Camille Terfve, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Life Sciences team, Cambridge As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Camille Terfve about her journey to becoming a ...
Eleanor Maciver - January 24, 2023 Meet the team: Eleanor Maciver, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Chemistry team, Cambridge As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Eleanor Maciver about her journey to becoming a ...
Amelia Jones - January 20, 2023 Synthetic Biology - creating innovative solutions to tackle climate change Over the past few decades, awareness of the impact that humans are having on the planet has grown ...
Katherine Collins - December 23, 2022 A world-first approval for off-the-shelf cell therapy We are delighted to learn that this week the European Commission granted the world’s first approval ...
Frances Salisbury - November 9, 2022 Gender bias in patent prosecution Fran Salisbury spoke to The Patent Lawyer Magazine about gender bias in patent prosecution. This ...
Darena Slavova - November 1, 2022 EPO introduces top-up searches for earlier national rights On 1 September 2022, the EPO introduced an extra “quality check” prior to granting a European ...
Darena Slavova - October 20, 2022 On track for net-zero railway: Hitachi’s Blues Train In 1825 George Stephenson’s Locomotion took 450 people 25 miles from Darlington to Stockton at 15 ...
Camille Terfve - October 17, 2022 Bioinformatics at the UK IPO – what does the new Guidance mean for applicants? As recently publicised, the UK IPO recently issued new guidance relating to examining patent ...
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 ...
Kate O'Rourke - August 11, 2022 Consequences of Brexit on trademarks and designs Just over six years ago, the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union. With most of the ...
Charlotte Lynch - August 8, 2022 The FemTech revolution: providing much-needed menopause care High quality menopause care has the potential to significantly improve women’s lives. Fortunately, ...
Emily Hayes - August 5, 2022 We perform significantly better than the EPO average at oppositions We really are experts when it comes to opposing patents and our enviable success rate speaks for ...
Eleanor Maciver - August 3, 2022 Alternative proteins: you can’t magic anything out of thin air – or can you? It’s hard to miss the scale of investor and consumer appetite for sustainable, future foods. Future ...
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.
Anna Mudge - May 24, 2022 Recipe for success - intellectual property opportunities in future food The future of food is big business and it’s only going to get bigger as both technology and ...
Emma Graham - May 18, 2022 Meet the team: Emma Graham, Partner, Patent Attorney, Engineering, London As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Emma Graham about her journey to becoming a ...
Alison Fugard - May 12, 2022 Life in plastic Plastic is prevalent in all areas of society, as is the growing awareness of its environmental ...
Charlotte Lynch - May 12, 2022 Femtech: Rich on innovation, short on funding The UK has the largest female health gap in the G20. A “female health gap” refers to women being in ...
Emily Hayes - April 7, 2022 EPO extends pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 December 2022 On 6 April 2022, the EPO issued a notice extending its pilot project for conducting oral ...
Charlotte Lynch - March 15, 2022 Let’s talk FemTech: the rise of female focussed innovation A surge in new medical technology is emerging from the FemTech sector. “FemTech” refers to ...
Katie Dale - March 14, 2022 Exosomes in liquid biopsy: a nanometric particle packed with potential We are all too familiar with the statistic that 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetime. Of ...
Fay Allen - March 8, 2022 We need to talk about women's health - spotlight on endometriosis Women’s health is an area that has suffered from gender bias for years. One reason for this is that ...
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 ...
Genevieve Pugh - February 17, 2022 Battery materials – sourcing a brighter battery-powered future As demonstrated by the recent COP 26 UN Climate Change conference, the climate crisis is weighing ...
Eleanor Maciver - February 16, 2022 Sustainability - good intentions are not enough There is growing awareness and alarm at the impact humans are having on the planet. The 2022 COP26 ...
Victoria Coleman - February 10, 2022 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022 As a forward-looking intellectual property firm working at the forefront of innovation, we know how ...
Frances Salisbury - February 10, 2022 Predicting the unpredictable during pregnancy For many expectant parents, pregnancy is a time of excitement, yet this time can also be riddled ...
Claire Evans - January 27, 2022 Signs of quality – EU and UK geographical indication (GI) logos A geographical indication (GI) is a form of intellectually property right that protects food, drink ...
Emily Hayes - November 24, 2021 EPO extends pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 May 2022 On 23 November 2021, the EPO issued a notice extending its pilot project for conducting oral ...
Alison Fugard - November 23, 2021 The green graphene revolution – the pursuit of sustainability If there is one word to describe graphene, it is “potential”. Since its discovery the possibilities ...
Camille Terfve - November 16, 2021 From academia to patents – a career path to becoming a patent attorney Camille Terfve spoke to EMBL Careers about what it takes to become a patent attorney. This was ...
Camille Terfve - November 12, 2021 Digital therapeutics: the rise of digital health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic There is no denying that the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped many aspects of our lives. Those lucky ...
Emily Hayes - October 29, 2021 Videoconference oral proceedings: Enlarged Board of Appeal issues reasons for its decision in G 1/21 The Enlarged Board has now issued its full written decision in G 1/21 relating to videoconference ...
Kate O'Rourke - October 14, 2021 Uncharted territory – your IP rights post-Brexit 30 September saw the passing of the final deadline for owners of EU trade mark and design rights to ...
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 ...
Camille Terfve - August 5, 2021 Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health Special Report Our new Special Report, Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health: a data driven ...
Fay Allen - July 28, 2021 Is metformin the key to anti-aging? By 2050, it is estimated that one quarter of the global population will be over 60 years old. That ...
Emily Hayes - July 21, 2021 Board of Appeal oral proceedings may be held by videoconference (ViCo) in an emergency On 16 July 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal confirmed that Board of Appeal oral proceedings may ...
Elizabeth Dale - July 5, 2021 Pyrolysis oil – heating up plastics recycling As society pushes towards a circular economy, the need for clever and efficient plastics recycling ...
Fay Allen - June 29, 2021 The technologies helping shape the future of food In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Fay Allen and Sarah Harvey discuss the technologies helping shape ...
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 ...
Elizabeth Dale - June 28, 2021 Plastics recycling: can microwaves help us clean up our mess? Forward asks Martin Lamb, chairman of pioneering recycler Enval, about the potential of pyrolysis, ...
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 ...
Camille Terfve - May 20, 2021 Intellectual property and artificial intelligence in the UK: what might the future hold? AI is a hot topic for the current UK government. Last year, the UK Intellectual Property Office ...
Emma Graham - May 7, 2021 Engineering oppositions: is there such thing as a “disguised method claim”? Case - T 1798/08
Fay Allen - April 19, 2021 What is the cancer microbiome? The “microbiome” is commonly associated with the gut microbiome, but recently the blood microbiome ...
Eleanor Maciver - March 12, 2021 Selection inventions before the EPO Chemical inventions are subject to the same criteria as all inventions at the European Patent ...
Camille Terfve - December 3, 2020 Deep learning cracks the protein folding problem? Deep learning has just made a new headline grabbing achievement: DeepMind’s latest AI-powered ...
Anna Mudge - October 9, 2020 Minimally invasive, maximum potential: liquid biopsy is redefining diagnosis Many of us will know someone who has undergone a biopsy during a medical diagnosis: we may even ...
Camille Terfve - September 24, 2020 Genomics medicine has already proved its potential: the (success) story of non-invasive prenatal testing We have previously discussed the tremendous progress made towards the adoption of genomics medicine ...
Kate O'Rourke - September 15, 2020 Facing facts: How the rise of face coverings has brought IP risks Forward: features discuss and celebrate the best of innovation and exploration from the scientific ...
Frances Salisbury - September 10, 2020 Neoantigens: IP considerations for an emerging class of cancer immunotherapy Recent cell and gene therapy product approvals have allowed the pharmaceutical industry to start a ...
Eleanor Maciver - August 28, 2020 Antimicrobial resistance – a global response to a global threat The discovery and development of antimicrobial agents and particularly antibiotics is recognised as ...
Maria Hall - August 14, 2020 Mewburn Ellis Munich Donates £5,000 to Women's Shelter KARLA 51 We are excited to announce that after a vote, our Munich office have chosen KARLA 51 as their ...
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.
Camille Terfve - July 14, 2020 Can software be therapeutic? The simple answer is: yes. Thanks for reading this post, stay tuned for more answers to your ...
Camille Terfve - July 6, 2020 Protecting IP in bioinformatics and digital health: tips and tricks to tackle the “moving target problem” As previously discussed, data driven approaches have revolutionised research and R&D in the ...
Camille Terfve - June 23, 2020 A Guide to Patenting Bioinformatics Inventions at the EPO: what is technical and why does it matter? Many inventions in the field of bioinformatics (a term that we will use herein to encompass ...
Camille Terfve - June 3, 2020 Have we entered the era of the DIY superhuman? Self-improvement products are everywhere around us, on our bookshelves and supermarket shelves ...
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 ...
Camille Terfve - April 23, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19), big data and silver linings There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic will have tremendous practical and economic impact ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Camille Terfve - February 7, 2020 Genomics and Biodata in 2020: so much data, so little time? Having attended the Festival of Genomics & Biodata 2020 conference last week, it is clear that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anna Mudge - November 27, 2019 Biomarkers and precision medicine A biomarker, an amalgamation of the term ‘biological marker’, is a measurable indicator of a ...
Camille Terfve - October 30, 2019 EPO Bioinformatics Roadshow There is still a relatively prevalent view in the field of bioinformatics and medical informatics ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anna Mudge - December 2, 2018 The importance of Innovation Hubs in the UK's North West Region Life science ‘start-ups’, ‘spin-outs’ and SMEs are some of the most innovative businesses and are ...
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 ...
