Fit Kitchen Ltd – triumphant at the IPEC
Summary A small healthy ready meal delivery business Fit Kitchen Limited (FKL) saw victory at
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The Greenshoots Podcast by Appleyard Lees – tech transfer teams’ IP challenges post-COVID and beyond
Tech transfer teams’ IP challenges post-COVID and beyond: Collaboration/inventorship/ownership | FTOs | Cost pressures | Funding | IP Strategy | Commercialisation strategy | Plausibility and Sufficiency | Multidisciplinary teams | Priority | Trade marks and other commercial considerations
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Are digital twins as patentable as their physical counterparts?
We live in an increasingly digital world – not only do more of us communicate with each other and access information or content using ‘apps’ and the internet, but some of the work we may have previously conducted in the ‘real’ or physical world is now being performed using computer simulations or digital twins.
Read more What’s the scoop on the Mr Whippy decision?
Despite “convincing arguments” against the strength of the evidence of use submitted by Unilever Plc, following the close-cut decision of the IPO on the 11 November 2019, the applicants’
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Pressing pause on intellectual property: Part three – trade marks
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 IPEC: Quick and cost effective UK IP Litigation
The IPEC provides quick access to cost-effective justice for IP rights holders.
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The rise of patents in the health food industry
IP Solicitor Chris Thomas highlights the need for brand owners and manufacturers to protect trade secrets in the food and beverage industry.
Read more Registering trade marks with Gin Lane
“Securing a trade mark for the Gin Lane brand early in our business’s development was essential for us to expand and grow with confidence."
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Can artificial intelligence match human intelligence?
Julia Gwilt and Parminder Lally attended the Cambridge Wireless event on "Narrowing the Intelligence Gap", hosted at Amazon's site in Cambridge. The event featured an excellent talk by Neil Lawrence (IPC Machine Learning at Amazon and Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Sheffield) on whether the latest AI is "more human".
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Patentability of products obtained from biological processes
After years of controversy, the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) of the EPO has recently decided that products obtained by essentially biological processes can be patent protected (T1063/18).
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Zombie trade marks: a refleshing update
Zombie trade marks take shape in many spooky forms. They are the abandoned, historic brands: the trade marks of businesses which are no longer actively trading. To the untrained eye, they can appear lifeless, but look a little closer, and there may still be a soul lurking behind the eyes.
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