Appleyard Lees partners and patent attorneys David Walsh and Jennifer Delaney discuss: Is patenting ‘green’ chemistry innovation different than patenting ‘traditional’ chemistry innovation?
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In part four, Patent Seekers' Alec Griffiths joined Appleyard Lees partners Richard Bray and Ean Davies for a discussion of how to approach pre-filing searches, and the surprising intelligence and insights that search data can hold.
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In part three Barbara Fleck and David Walsh examine the requirements for sufficiency and plausibility at the EPO and provide practical advice on drafting robust applications.
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‘Tech transfer teams’ IP challenges post-COVID-19 and beyond’ is a series of interactive virtual discussions, focused on unpacking the issues relevant to those managing intellectual property for tech transfer departments.
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The Artificial Inventor Project have filed patent applications around the world for two inventions, which they say are invented by an AI system called DABUS. Whilst the nuances of patent law vary from country to country, most (if not all) patent systems around the world assume that only natural persons can be inventors. Consequently, the applications are being refused by patent offices around the world.
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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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On 26 August 2020, the UK Supreme Court issued a judgment on the Unwired Planet v Huawei and Huawei v Conversant cases.
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First published in Cambridge Catalyst, Parminder Lally explores how the pandemic has accelerated innovation. Covid-19 and IP Wow, what a strange year 2020 has turned out to be! For the January issue,
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Summary A small healthy ready meal delivery business Fit Kitchen Limited (FKL) saw victory at
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In June and July 2020, Appleyard Lees litigated an unprecedented number of trials in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) – which were held in an equally unprecedented, virtual format.
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