Welcome to Greenshoots

Greenshoots is a collection of fresh intellectual property insight, analysis and commentary on the issues that matter most to those who invent, manage and protect intellectual property, written by the IP specialists of Appleyard Lees.

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How NOT to get a Bioinformatics Patent

Parminder Lally and Simon Ambroz discuss why a patent application that relates to bioinformatics has been objected to by both the UK and US Patent Offices.

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Twitter rants, leaked documents and legal action

Produced for the World Trademark Review, Chris Hoole comments on the high profile spat between Haas F1 and Rich Energy.

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Will an ECJ ruling change the approach to registering Community Designs?

Johannes Biniok discusses the EU Court of Justice ruling which may change the approach to registering Community Designs in the auto industry and beyond.

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Appeal has no power

Originally produced for LexisNexis, Chris Thomas recounts the reasoning behind the judge’s support of the Hearing Officer in a judgment handed down on 11 April 2019.

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Synthetic Biology: Fuelling the Growth of the Bioeconomy

Parminder Lally discusses the commonality between AI, software, 5G and IoT innovations as highlighted at SynbiTECH 2019 and this year’s Cambridge Wireless International Conference.

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Big Data, Big Problem?

Parminder Lally looks at the issues that in-house attorneys may need to consider when dealing with AI.

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning: sufficiency and plausibility

Howard Read examines the sufficiency and plausibility of AI and ML and how practice at the EPO may evolve.

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Key Points: computing Inventions in Europe

Ian Robinson provides an important update on patent eligibility in Europe for computing-related inventions, including the latest announcements for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

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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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PCT Direct – Fast forward to positive PCT outcomes

Ithel Jones examines the value of using the PCT Direct service offered by the European Patent Office.

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Problematic Priorities

In the last few months, the European Patent Office has decided that the priority claim of a number of pending patent applications and granted patents was invalid. In this article, Parminder Lally looks at the reasons behind these decisions and the consequences, and provides tips on how to avoid priority issues on your own patent applications.

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