History, opportunities and challenges for protecting gene therapies: perspectives from private practice and industry
01 August 2025
Recent years have seen an explosion of advanced therapies, many of which are based on personalised immune cells, individually edited…
G 1/23 and enablement: are commercially available products state of the art?
01 August 2025
In this eagerly awaited European Patent Office (EPO) decision, the Enlarged Board of Appeal concluded that a product put on…
Technologies for plastics waste management: patent trends & incentives supporting innovation
01 August 2025
The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently published its analysis highlighting the innovation trends in tackling one of the most…
Chiplets: providing commercially valuable patent protection for modular products
01 August 2025
Many products are assembled from components manufactured and distributed separately, and it is important to consider how such products are…
Agritech prototyping: the risk of public disclosure
01 August 2025
To get a patent for any new device or process it must be novel, meaning that it has not already…
Unified Patent Court: auxiliary claim requests
01 August 2025
Amidst the buzz of rapidly developing patentability and infringement case law at the Unified Patent Court (UPC), you could be…
Unified Patent Court: added subject matter
01 August 2025
The European Patent Office (EPO) is renowned for its strict test for added subject matter, but will the Unified Patent…
EPO & UPC interplay: added subject matter by intermediate generalisation
01 August 2025
The interplay between the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is of great interest to European…
Medtech: patent protection for custom medical devices
29 July 2025
In the world of medical devices, finding a best fitting device for each patient has been a significant challenge for…
Agritech: farm use exemptions to patent infringement in the UK
25 July 2025
If a patent is valid and in force in the UK, one can infringe a product that it protects it…
Hague design registration system update: reduced “individual” designation and renewal fees for designating the Republic of Korea
22 July 2025
In a welcome announcement concerning the international Hague design registration system, the “individual” designation fee for designating the Republic of…
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