Patents

The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has now issued their decision on G1/24 the referral relating to claim interpretation…

The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently issued the 2024 edition of its annual Patent Index which provides a detailed overview…

Now that we are into 2025 the European Patent Office (EPO) has recently issued the 2024 edition of its annual Patent…

If customers are holding onto their tech for longer, how are tech companies planning to make money in the future?…

Anne Bate, patent paralegal & technical workflow specialist, joins John to mark their 30-year working partnership along with managing partner…

Barker Brettell provides cost-conscious, in-house patent specialists with European expertise Barker Brettell, the UK head-quartered intellectual property (IP) firm, is…

The Enlarged Board of Appeal has issued its preliminary opinion ahead of the upcoming oral proceedings on the G1/24 referral…

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued its first decision on patent infringement by equivalence in Plant-e Knowledge B.V. &…

The Unified Patent Court, a centralised court having jurisdiction over infringement and validity of European patents in countries which have…

The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) has recently announced the launch of its new ‘One IPO Search’ tool to…

A recent EPO Board of Appeal (BoA) decision (T 1553/22) considered the patentability of human-animal chimeras (organisms or tissues that…

In late December 2024 the UK IPO launched a three-month consultation on AI and copyright – closing on 25th February…