Patents

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…

Over the next few months we’ll be bringing you a series of articles looking into design protection. Today, patent attorney…

Figures just released by the UK Government reveal the take up of the tax saving Patent Box scheme in its…

Market demand for novel clean packaging solutions is on the rise as environmental concerns increase, crude oil becomes more expensive…

The European Patent Office (EPO) brought in new guidelines on 1st July 2016 which aim to simplify the opposition procedure…

Patent trends in the food, beverage and tobacco sector Patent filings in general rose in 11 of the top 12…

Two attorneys from the Intellectual Property (IP) specialist firm Barker Brettell will be presenting at the Food Matters Live exhibition…