Patents

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Patent Trial and Appeal Board handed down its decision, on 15 February 2017,…

It’s an industry traditionally associated with unhurried rejuvenation and relaxation, but in reality keeping ahead of trends is challenging in…

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

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…

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

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…

At times an applicant may wish to accelerate prosecution of a UK application in the UK national phase of a…