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The European Patent Office’s latest patent index shows that patent applications filed at the EPO hit a record number in…

Net Zero has long been seen as an important goal in mitigating the effects of climate change.  Recently, the COP26…

Governments around the world have committed to targets to decarbonise their economies in the coming years, in order to limit…

A peculiarity of patent prosecution at the EPO is that examiners typically insist on the description being amended into line…

Today we announce that Priscilla Makovski will be retiring after 44 years at Barker Brettell. Priscilla was managing partner between…

Patent attorney and partner Dave Combes will be attending the FAC Annual Conference on 25 November 2021. An expert in…

What can the FMGC sector do to protect its branded products against copycats? Carole Drury, associate patent attorney at Barker…

As the coronavirus tsunami crashed through the economy, wiping an estimated £1.7bn off the UK cosmetics and toiletries industry in…

In some fields – such as chemistry, biology and physics – results are not totally predictable. However, it can be…

Following the UK’s departure from the EU on the 31st December 2020, the end of the transition period is now…

Electric cars are great for eliminating at-vehicle emissions, but, even with a 10-20 year battery life-span, it will not be…

At the end of the Brexit transition period the UKIPO created comparable UK rights for all EU registrations and EU…