Small and medium-sized enterprises

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."

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". 

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).

Missing the target with functional claim language

What’s the problem with ‘functional limitations’?

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.

Does an overly-wide trade mark specification indicate bad faith?

TRUMP TV ON APPEAL TO HIGH COURTUKIPO decision number O-409-18Trade mark application no. 3193965 TRUMP TV in the name of Trump International Limited and opposition

Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal

Howard Read discusses the revisions to the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office.

Processing language: A patent overview

Language, be it written or spoken, can be vague, ambiguous and difficult to interpret. 

Take down schemes and unjustified threats

A broad law of equivalence in the UK for chemical subject matter? Actavis v Eli explained