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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Plastics recycling patent filings hit worldwide peak in 2020

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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G2/21 Plausibility – The Enlarged Board of Appeal has heard the final arguments on whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive step

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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Podcast

The Greenshoots Podcast by Appleyard Lees – episode 33 – Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2022

In this episode, patent attorneys, partner David Walsh, and senior associates Chris Mason and Paul Beynon, discuss key insights from our ‘Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2022’.

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Articles

Cultivated meat patent filings on an upward trajectory

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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Fuel pump on forest
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Green hydrogen patent filings on upward trajectory

This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.

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Green innovation
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Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report

Our annual report analyses patent filings across several areas of innovation, including food production, renewable energy, and materials and recycling.

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Trainee blog

Attending the CIPA Manchester conference

Talks began with Eskil Waage from the EPO joining by video link. He’s been working on the Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) since 2008, so has a wealth of experience, and gave a presentation on the differences between European Patent Office (EPO) opposition and UPC revocation action.

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Articles

Amazon found to target UK consumers by Court of Appeal

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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Trainee blog

Networking at the Northern Gamechangers Awards  

On 14 September, I attended the Northern Gamechangers awards organised by Elevate, Manchester

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Podcast

The Greenshoots Podcast by Appleyard Lees – episode 32 – understanding the UK IPO’s latest guidance on AI patent applications  

In this episode, senior associate and patent attorney Paul Roscoe, and associate Matthew Bennett, give an in-depth analysis of the new UK IPO guidance, and what it means for those seeking to protect AI innovation.  

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Fashion trade marks and registered designs
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Centralised European patent protection and enforcement is coming

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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