Sara Holland shares what she's learned by working with a growing number of scientist-founders.
You will have done well to miss the news that Twitter has shed its old skin and emerged from the social media cocoon with a new identity as "X".
This is one of the rare cases about the requirement of copyright fixation, which demonstrates how the English courts apply the existing, 35-year-old, copyright law to new technologies.
In a landmark ruling the local division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Munich issued a preliminary injunction against NanoString Technologies based on European Patent 4 108 782 B1, successfully asserted by 10x Genomics and President and Fellows of Harvard College (licensee and patentee).
Potter Clarkson is delighted to announce that eight attorneys have been nominated as some of the world's leading patent and trade mark practitioners in this year's edition of WWL: IP.
As you’re participating in the Food & Bio Summit, you will have a serious interest in the biotechnical aspects of the food and drink industry. Moreover, you will have a serious interest in the different ways we can transform our current food systems to create more sustainable ecosystems and the part both business and science will need to play in this transformation.
On 30 June 2023 the US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled in favour of Orexo AB in its patent litigation against Sun in relation to ZUBSOLV® (buprenorphine and naloxone) sublingual tablets (CIII), with the Court ruling that Orexo’s patents are both valid and are infringed by Sun.
This article touches on our experience so far in handling revocation actions for clients before the UPC. The article also comments on some of the strategic and commercial considerations relevant when deciding on whether to pursue UPC revocation proceedings.
In April this year, the European Commission submitted its proposals for revisions to the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation governing the authorisation of medicinal products.
We look at the various forms of patent claim available for PV inventions and provide tips for seeking patent protection.
As part of its call for views process to understand whether change is needed in the current Standard Essential Patents, SEPs, framework to support innovation, the UK Intellectual Property Office, UKIPO, has now published a summary of responses to its SEPs questionnaire for SMEs.
The UK Intellectual Property Office, UKIPO, has published the outcome of a call for views on Standard Essential Patents, SEPs, and innovation, the purpose of which - as part of the UKIPO’s broader aim to support innovation - was to gather evidence on whether the ecosystem around SEPs is functioning efficiently and effectively and strikes the right balance for all entities involved.
Software is actually a very good example of a type of invention that might be suitable for protection by a trade secret.
Sometimes copyright can offer a more effective way to protect software than patents. Copyright and patents are different forms of intellectual property and help protect creations in different ways.
On 14 October 2022, the European Patent Office (EPO) announced the upcoming end of the so-called "Ten-Day Rule" for calculating deadlines triggered by EPO notifications such as office actions. In this guide, we answer some frequently asked questions around this change, updated as we learn more.