Patents

The European Patent Office (EPO) and participating European Union countries are in the final stages of establishing the Unitary Patent…

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

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

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

The pharmaceutical industry has eagerly awaited the decision from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the first new…

Surgery is, by its very nature, an invasive procedure. It can be transformative to the quality of life of those…

The European Patent Convention requires that an applicant filing an application at the European Patent Office (EPO) that claims priority…

Friday, 28 May 2021 saw a first in Oral Proceedings at the European Patent Office with the live streaming of…

2020 was not the easiest year for the aerospace industry. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention,…

The disappearance of blue Smarties® was a hammer blow that echoed through the mid-noughties. Nestlé®, reacting to fears that artificial…

Graphene was once described as a “rising star on the horizon of materials science”, and since then has been the…

To receive patent protection an invention needs to be, among other things, new. This would normally stop an existing product…