Insect protein: investment is on the rise
This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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The benefits of the UKIPO’s ‘IP Audit Plus’ scheme
The key benefits of an IP audit under the ‘IP Audit Plus’ scheme: Intellectual property can make a business more attractive to investors, by securing innovation and brands as assets.
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Innovation investment for carbon capture takes to the air
This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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Plastics recycling patent filings hit worldwide peak in 2020
In the 2022 edition of Appleyard Lees' Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report, our attorneys analysed patent filings across several key environmental issues facing the world, including energy, materials, and alternative proteins and food production.
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G2/21 Plausibility – The Enlarged Board of Appeal has heard the final arguments on whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive step
Patent attorneys Edward Rainsford and Sarah Gibbs discuss the recent verdict, delivered by the Enlarged Board of Appeal, on whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive step.
Read more Cultivated meat patent filings on an upward trajectory
In the 2022 edition of Appleyard Lees' Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report, our attorneys analysed patent filings across several key environmental issues facing the world. Our section on food production and alternative proteins showed an exponential increase in cultivated meat innovation over the past decade, as evidenced by cultivated meat patent filing data.
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Green hydrogen patent filings on upward trajectory
This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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Amazon found to target UK consumers by Court of Appeal
Intellectual property rights are territorial in nature, subject to the laws of individual countries, sitting within the constraints of jurisdictional boundaries. When does selling goods online, to another foreign jurisdiction, constitute trade mark infringement?
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Centralised European patent protection and enforcement is coming
The Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) will enter into force on 1 June 2023, when the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is planned to enter into force. These new systems will centralise patent protection and enforcement within many EU countries.
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Invalidity case highlights importance of a UK address for service for WIPO registrations
A recent UK IPO decision, Marco Polo (O/681/22) shows the dangers of not appointing a UK address for service for WIPO trade mark registrations.
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Patents at the intersection of AI and transport: improving the journey from patent filing to grant
It is no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have enabled innovation to grow in myriad application fields. The European Patent Office (EPO) considers applications relating to core AI techniques to be unpatentable. The application of AI and ML techniques to certain fields may be more successful at the EPO if the field is per se considered “technical”.
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