Processing language: A patent overview
Language, be it written or spoken, can be vague, ambiguous and difficult to interpret.
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Engineering Enterprise Fellowship Showcase
In celebration of entrepreneurship as a career, twelve recipients of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's and Royal Academy of Engineering's Enterprise Fellowship programmes described their journeys from initial concept to growing start-up and beyond.
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning: wherein lies the invention?
At the European Patent Office (EPO), the Boards of Appeal have long held a view that features of an algorithm underlying a computer-implemented method.
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Pharmaceutical trade marks: the name and numbers game
There are currently around 1,000 medicinal products authorised for human use in the European Union. Yet, there are 45,000 pharmaceutical trade marks protected in the UK. Clearly, there are far more pharmaceutical trade marks than there are products on the market.
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Copyright and property – think!
What price must an author of a copyright work pay for it to be enjoyed? Are these authors exploited by the very intellectual property right intended to protect them?
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Broad Institute CRISPR Patent Decision
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.
Read more Take down schemes and unjustified threats
In the UK, if a rights holder identifies a potential infringement on an online market place, like eBay or Amazon, or through social media platforms, such as Twitter or Instagram, it has several options. Most commonly, the rights holder will send a cease and desist letter and/or file a take down notice.
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A broad law of equivalence in the UK for chemical subject matter? Actavis v Eli explained
As previously reported, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom have issued a landmark decision on patent infringement. The headline is that a doctrine of equivalents can now be said to apply in the UK and, moreover, apply to chemical subject matter.
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