Many start-up companies are developing artificial intelligence (AI) innovations, from AI-driven drug discovery to AI-based fruit harvesting. Many of these companies protect their AI inventions by filing patent applications, but a new AI-driven trade mark service could make filing a trade mark a faster and cheaper option.
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The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has ruled that plants or animals produced by an essentially biological process are not patentable in Decision G3/19 of 20 May 2020, a conclusion that goes against earlier Decisions in G2/131 and G2/121.
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Partners and patent attorneys Ean Davies and Adam Tindall discuss: Reimagining the in-house team/outside counsel relationship | Getting the best from private practice IP attorneys | IP during a recession
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Unregistered design rights (UDR) protects the shape or configuration of the whole or part of an article, excluding surface decoration. The design must be original and must not be commonplace.
Read more What is CRISPR? Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) are a family of DNA sequences found in bacteria.
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This three-part series examines how intellectual property protection can continue in a productive and effective way, during this time of remote working, shifting priorities, uncertainty and change.
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The European Patent Convention does not explicitly prohibit double patenting. However, the European Patent Office has, for some time now, prohibited the granting of two patents to the same applicant for the same subject matter.
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The Board of Appeal of the EPO dismissed the Broad Institute’s appeal against the Opposition Division’s previous decision to revoke one of their patents covering CRISPR gene editing technology (EP2771468) on 16 January 2020.
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