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How can you maximise the commercial value of your trade secrets?

Trade secrets are often the crown jewels within an IP portfolio. Unfortunately, despite their importance to the company, trade secrets can also be the forgotten component of a company’s IP portfolio. With that in mind we thought it would be useful to answer the questions about trade secrets our clients ask us most frequently.

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Can carbon capture give cement a more environmentally friendly future?

Every year the world uses around 4 billion tons of cement. Predictably this rate of building will take its toll on the environment. This is where new innovations designed to trap and reuse CO2 emissions during cement production can play a pivotal role.

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Covid-19: update on procedures for patents, trade marks and designs

Like all organisations, intellectual property offices have had to make changes to the way they operate at the current time to limit the spread of Covid-19. Here, you will find the key changes you need to be aware of from the EPO, EUIPO, UKIPO, DKPTO, PRV and WIPO.

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Amgen v Sanofi: narrowing the scope of protection for antibody inventions?

In the latest development in global patent litigation that has polarized the life sciences industry, Amgen’s patent claims covering a whole class of monoclonal antibody PCSK9 inhibitors have been ruled to be invalid by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.