Partner and trade mark attorney Robert Cumming, and trainee trade mark attorney Claire Bothma, discuss if a a mark, which is descriptive for goods, also descriptive for the retail of those goods.
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Design disputes tend to focus on the comparison between the design as registered and the prior art. The case PicArt Print & Design v. Daniel Platten is no exception.
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This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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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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In this episode, partners and solicitors, Chris Hoole and Bill Lister, discuss some of 2022’s most significant IP disputes, and what they might mean for the enforcement of IP rights in 2023 and beyond.
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On the 18 and 19 October 2022, I attended a two-day conference at Alderley Bioscience Park hosted by BioNow. Appleyard Lees sponsored the event and we have been regular attendees of BioNow conferences for many years. Over the course of two days, a series of talks were held by renowned researchers in the fields of oncology and precision medicine.
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This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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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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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 In this episode, patent attorneys, partner David Walsh, and senior associates Chris Mason and Paul Beynon, discuss key insights from our ‘Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2022’.
Read more 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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