Patent attorneys Edward Rainsford and Sarah Gibbs discuss the recent verdict, delivered by the Enlarged Board of Appeal, on whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive step.
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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. Our section on food production and alternative proteins showed an exponential increase in cultivated meat innovation over the past decade, as evidenced by cultivated meat patent filing data.
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This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
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Our annual report analyses patent filings across several areas of innovation, including food production, renewable energy, and materials and recycling.
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Intellectual property rights are territorial in nature, subject to the laws of individual countries, sitting within the constraints of jurisdictional boundaries. When does selling goods online, to another foreign jurisdiction, constitute trade mark infringement?
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The Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) will enter into force on 1 June 2023, when the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is planned to enter into force. These new systems will centralise patent protection and enforcement within many EU countries.
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A recent UK IPO decision, Marco Polo (O/681/22) shows the dangers of not appointing a UK address for service for WIPO trade mark registrations.
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It is no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have enabled innovation to grow in myriad application fields. The European Patent Office (EPO) considers applications relating to core AI techniques to be unpatentable. The application of AI and ML techniques to certain fields may be more successful at the EPO if the field is per se considered “technical”.
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In part two of this series, we look at the interplay between NFTs and specific intellectual property (IP) rights that subsist in the UK.
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In 2020, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published a call for views on the patentability of artificial intelligence (AI) inventions. In March 2021, the UK government committed the IPO to publish enhanced guidelines on the examination of patent applications relating to AI inventions
Read more In part one of this series, we introduce the concepts of non-fungible tokens (NFTS), the metaverse, cryptocurrency and blockchain.
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