In this episode, Appleyard Lees partners, patent attorneys, and experienced opposition specialists, Bobby Smithson and Jennifer Delaney, give their outlook on patent oppositions and appeals at the EPO in 2022.
Read more
In this blog post we hear from Oliver Herd and Kealan Fallon, who are both new trainees working in the Cambridge office. They talk about why they were drawn to a career as a patent attorney.
Read more
The European Commission has recently published several proposals for new regulations on supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), including the introduction of a unitary SPC (for both medicines and plant procedures) that would apply to Unitary Patents.
Read more
AI and green innovation in food production, renewable energy and plastic recycling | The innovators using digital technologies to address global sustainability issues | Responsible computing & dark data – what can be done to manage unused data, and the carbon emissions.
Read more
For brand owners, in particular in the pharmaceutical field, one of the most difficult trade arenas to navigate can be the grey market. Our guide to the grey market, what it is and when brand owners can stop grey market goods is below.
Read more
After an enforced two-year break, the annual Bionow awards were held in real life, in person and not on a computer screen! I pulled my tuxedo out of retirement for the night and headed off to the Concorde Conference Centre at Manchester Airport to celebrate the achievements of life science companies in the north of England. It was an evening to catch up with familiar faces and clients we hadn’t seen in person during the pandemic.
Read more
In this article Bill Lister talks about the process of mediation, and gives pointers as to how parties can get the best out of a mediation.
Read more In this episode, Appleyard Lees partners and solicitors Bill Lister and Chris Hoole discuss the benefits of mediation vs. court proceedings, and how mediation in intellectual property cases can differ to non-intellectual property cases.
Read more A number of Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) strategies have been developed over the last few decades. They can provide cost-effective alternatives to court proceedings, and allow two parties to negotiate a settlement in a confidential environment.
Read more
After years of uncertainty, both the Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) could be live as early as October 2022. The new systems will introduce centralised patent protection and
Read more
On 6 April 2022, after a high-stakes, eleven day trial, the High Court of England and Wales declared that Ed Sheeran, singer/songwriter, did not infringe copyright relating to the song “Oh Why” by Sami Chokri. The allegation that Ed Sheeran copied the catchy parts of “Oh Why” was therefore dismissed by the Court.
Read more
