The pharmaceutical industry has eagerly awaited the decision from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the first new…
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‘Work of Art’ or brand violation? MSCHF settles as Nike stamps on trade mark infringement
Nike has recently reached a settlement with the Brooklyn art collective, MSCHF, over the alleged infringement of a pair of…
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Keeping in line: intraoperative surgical guidance innovation
Surgery is, by its very nature, an invasive procedure. It can be transformative to the quality of life of those…
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European Patent Office extends the exemption for filing search reports to China
The European Patent Convention requires that an applicant filing an application at the European Patent Office (EPO) that claims priority…
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ViCo no-go at EPO?
Friday, 28 May 2021 saw a first in Oral Proceedings at the European Patent Office with the live streaming of…
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Post-Brexit trade mark rights: Barker Brettell explains the updated processes
At the end of the Brexit transition period the UKIPO created comparable UK rights for all EU registrations and EU…
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Branching out: how to protect your business in new territories
The Coronavirus pandemic and Brexit may have caused an, albeit temporary, double whammy of business uncertainty, but important commercial opportunities…
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Catherine Wiseman marks 25 years at Barker Brettell
One of the world’s leading trade mark professionals – and home-grown talent – Catherine Wiseman, is celebrating 25 years at…
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The material world of aerospace: superalloys and coatings
2020 was not the easiest year for the aerospace industry. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention,…
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Blue dye thinking?
The disappearance of blue Smarties® was a hammer blow that echoed through the mid-noughties. Nestlé®, reacting to fears that artificial…
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Going beyond graphene: the emergence of novel two-dimensional materials
Graphene was once described as a “rising star on the horizon of materials science”, and since then has been the…
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New drug development built on solid foundations: how patent law actively encourages incorporating existing products
To receive patent protection an invention needs to be, among other things, new. This would normally stop an existing product…
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