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From Leicester City winning the Premier League to Donald Trump becoming the US president-elect, 2016 was a year of the…

Carrie Johnson, patent attorney and partner continues Barker Brettell’s series on design protection by looking into how designs and trade…

When a European Patent is granted the applicant has to decide on the countries in which the patent will be…

As another year passes, the latest figures on International IP activity for 2015 have been released by the World Intellectual…

We have written previously in January 2015 and in June 2016 about the case G 1/15 before the Enlarged Board…

The saga of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has taken another twist, meaning that the much talked about court system…

Gaming technology has come a long way in the past four decades, developing from the earliest two-dimensional video games such…

As long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, it seems there will always be…

Birmingham Intellectual Property (IP) firm Barker Brettell has won a coveted place on the panel of patent attorney advisors to…

The European Union Observatory on infringements of Intellectual Property rights (the Observatory) published a report in July 2016 focussing on…

If claim 1 of a patent application or patent encompasses subject matter in the prior art, something has to be…

The EPO has announced that from 1st November 2016 the signatures of both the assignor and assignee will be required…