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Hot chips! Will patents become more important in the semiconductor industry?
The excitement surrounding today’s most innovative AI tools is increasingly putting a spotlight on some of the key players in the semiconductor industry who create the technology required to run these tools. For example, the enormous levels of computing power required to train large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT… -
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Added matter at the UPC: Samsung succeeds in revocation of Headwater patents
Samsung has emerged triumphant in revocation counterclaims against Headwater’s patents EP3110069 and EP2391947 at the UPC’s Düsseldorf and Munich Local Divisions, respectively. We take a look at the courts’ approach to the assessment of added subject matter in both cases, and how the reasoning of the courts fits with the… -
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Potential changes to the UK design system: September 2025 consultation
A review of the UK designs system is currently taking place, with the aim of providing a more effective and less complicated system that suits all kinds of businesses, from individual designers to large corporations. The majority of users of the designs system in the UK are microbusinesses, which can… -
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Quantum advantage: near-term breakthrough or long-term challenge?
Quantum computing providers are engaged in a race to be the first to demonstrate quantum advantage (also referred to as quantum supremacy). Many claims of quantum advantage have been made in recent years, most of them disputed. This article looks at the landscape in 2025, why this milestone matters, and… -
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Dont jump the gun: preliminary injunction granted in 17 UPC states against generic pharmaceutical company
In a recent order, the UPC Court of Appeal granted Boehringer Ingelheim provisional measures against generics company, Zentiva, for its anti-fibrotic drug, nintedanib. -
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UPC CFI 315/2023, GRUR-RS 2024, 30221: NJOY Netherlands/Juul Labs International
The decision rendered by the Paris Central Division on 05 November 2024 in the revocation proceedings between NJOY Netherlands and Juul Labs International regarding European patent EP3504991B1 (UPC CFI 315/2023) was one of the first rulings of the Unified Patent Court on the patentability requirement of inventive step. This article… -
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Clean maritime: charting the course for greener shipping
Shipping is the backbone of global trade, with the European Environment Agency estimating that 77% of European external trade is moved by sea. However, its environmental impact is varied and significant. In addition to contributing to 13.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions from transport in the EU, shipping contributes to… -
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Variant use, promotional use & partial revocation: easyGroup partially successful at the Court of Appeal
Two recent Court of Appeal decisions, easyGroup Ltd v Easy Live (Services) Ltd (EasyLive) and easyGroup Ltd v Easyfundraising Ltd (EasyFundraising), provide clarification regarding the law of variant use, promotional use and partial revocation. In the EasyFundraising appeal, easyGroup was partially successful in overturning the High Court’s revocation decisions. In… -
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Sales of own products qualify as genuine use for retail services: Board of Appeal overturns EUIPOs restrictive approach
The Board of Appeal has confirmed that retail services limited to the trade mark proprietor’s own products may constitute genuine use under European Union trade mark law, provided they involve more than the mere act of sale. The decision clarifies the interpretation of “retail services” and rejects the restrictive approach… -
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SkyKick in practice: broad specification leads to finding of bad faith
The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has applied the Supreme Court judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and Anor v Sky Ltd and Ors ([2024] UKSC 36) (SkyKick) in case O/0439/24 regarding a UK trade mark application for ENERJO.
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