In this article, senior associate and patent attorney Parminder Lally, and trainee patent attorney Debora Dorn, provide a summary of the new practice regarding UK divisional patent applications, that will come into effect on 1 May 2023.
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With 1 June 2023 being the start date of the Unitary Patent system, applicants achieving allowance of their European patent applications in the coming months may wish to delay grant so as to obtain a Unitary Patent (UP).
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In part three of this series, we look at recent legal disputes involving NFTs (ongoing and settled), that present new, unique intellectual property issues.
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Senior associate and patent attorney Paul Roscoe discusses T 0702/20, and the implications it could have on AI patent applications at the EPO.
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On 25 January 2023, the UK IPO issued a notice with immediate effect to say that the registrar will require a UK address for service (AFS) before any documents are considered formally served.
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Partner and trade mark attorney Robert Cumming, and trainee trade mark attorney Claire Bothma, discuss if a a mark, which is descriptive for goods, also descriptive for the retail of those goods.
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Design disputes tend to focus on the comparison between the design as registered and the prior art. The case PicArt Print & Design v. Daniel Platten is no exception.
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This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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The key benefits of an IP audit under the ‘IP Audit Plus’ scheme: Intellectual property can make a business more attractive to investors, by securing innovation and brands as assets.
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This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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In the 2022 edition of Appleyard Lees' Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report, our attorneys analysed patent filings across several key environmental issues facing the world, including energy, materials, and alternative proteins and food production.
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