Oct 09, 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...
Oct 09, 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...
Oct 08, 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...
Oct 04, 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...
Oct 04, 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...
Oct 03, 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...
Oct 03, 2024 New blood vessel scanner with the ability to image in real time By Annabel Williams A new handheld scanner uses photoacoustic tomography (PAT) to produce highly detailed imaging scans in real time. The new scanner will...
Oct 02, 2024 The supermarket copycat saga continues... this time it's chocolate By Ella Newell We are all now absolutely familiar with the concept of ‘copycats’ and ‘lookalikes’ in the context of supermarket own-brand products, most...
Oct 01, 2024 US Registry cancels Marvel and DC's shared "SUPER HEROES" trade marks By Sarah Chittock I was very surprised to learn that Marvel and DC, industry titans and rivals, have for many decades jointly owned a number of US Federal...
Oct 01, 2024 UPC: Software Development Kit and Indirect Infringement By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Background Hand Held Products, Inc. (part of the Honeywell group) filed an application for a preliminary injunction against Scandit AG,...
Sep 30, 2024 First instance of a witness being invited to testify in UPC oral proceedings By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In an order dated 27 August 2024 (UPC_CFI_358/2023), the Paris (FR) Local Division of the UPC allowed a request by the claimant for a...
Sep 30, 2024 Green electricity excess - a nice problem to have? By Robert Carpmael The summer may be behind us now, but in search of sunny news to distract me from the rain outside my window I found this! Spain has found...