17 Oct, 2024 Claimant’s patent portfolio not sufficient to provide security of costs By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Daniyal Khan In a series of Orders dated 17 September 2024 issued by the Court of Appeal (UPC_CoA_217/2024, UPC_CoA_218/2024), the panel of judges...
16 Oct, 2024 Summary of Confidentiality Orders granted by the UPC By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Daniyal Khan One of the objectives of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is to ensure that proceedings are dealt with in a fair and equitable manner and...
16 Oct, 2024 Is Australia now winning the Hydrogen Race? By Robert Carpmael The Outback, with its baking sun, is certainly a climate well suited for solar power generation. It now looks as though this will be...
14 Oct, 2024 Adaptix wins innovation award for low-power x-ray testing solution By Dominic O'Connor At the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) conference last week Adaptix, who have been working closely with Cranfield University, won...
14 Oct, 2024 Earbuds as Hearing Aids By Duncan White According to an article in the Guardian, Apple's Airpods (RTM) can be used as hearing aids. And not just as a gimmick, but clinically...
10 Oct, 2024 How IP and R&D are Shaping the UK’s Semiconductor Industry By Matthew Pinney The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology recently published a new study on the UK's semiconductor sector. Some of my...
09 Oct, 2024 Northern Lights Shines - CO2 ready! By Kirsteen Gordon Having worked with Equinor AS on IP in connection with the Northern Lights project, it was exciting to read that the infrastructure is...
09 Oct, 2024 3D-printed death capsule By Mitasha Bharadwaj The famous Star Trek-styled 3D-printed coffin, Sarco Pod, is facing another controversy. The famous Australian physician Dr Philip...
08 Oct, 2024 M&C in the news - Deepfake regulation: A double-edged sword? By M&C Newsroom As generative AI continues to evolve, deepfake technology has rapidly become one of its most controversial and potentially dangerous...
04 Oct, 2024 Offshore Renewable Energy Hub calls for accelerated deployment of wind, wave, and tidal energy By Susan Bradley In a report published today, the Supergen ORE Hub summarises the contribution of offshore renewable energy (ORE) to the UK's 2050 net...
04 Oct, 2024 Gene Editing and EU Regulations – a patent attorney’s perspective By M&C Newsroom Gene editing in agriculture has made leaps over the past decade, from CRISPR breakthroughs to trials with GABA-enriched tomatoes and...
03 Oct, 2024 UPC denies request to extend action to an additional party By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In a procedural order issued on 2 September 2024, the Munich Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) rejected Panasonic Holdings...