Case Law

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

Emotional Perception AI Ltd (EPAIL) have been granted leave to appeal by the UK Supreme Court. This follows a series…

Complications following a recent Board of Appeal decision Certain categories are considered by the European Patent Convention to be either…

Abstract Shortly after celebrating its one-year anniversary, things look to be very much in full swing for the Unitary Patent…

The Court of Appeal has now handed down the judgment in, arguably, the summer of 2024’s most anticipated UK patent…

Registered Designs are an effective way to get some IP protection in place, particularly in cases where the bar for…

In many jurisdictions (most notably the U.S.), multiple dependency of claims is not allowed. It is therefore common to have…

The European Patent Office (EPO) does not give the description in a granted patent much weight when construing the claims….

When the current version of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal came into force in 2020, it…

Last week the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) filed its grounds of appeal in the Emotional Perception appeal (Comptroller-General of Patents,…

On 1 January 2024, the UKIPO changed its rules surrounding the requirement of an address for service in the UK,…

Aldi has, once again, successfully defended a trade mark infringement and passing off action for one of its “copycat” products….