2/26/2025 4:26:30 PM Improving a different "special relationship" - UK soil breakthrough sows seeds for sustainable farming By Andrea Williams We were delighted to see another groundbreaking technology from our client - the John Innes Centre - featured in The Guardian this week....
2/25/2025 8:29:40 PM Protecting IP in vertical farming stacks up By Nikki Lai Susan Bradley What do cars and vertical farms have in common? Plenty, it turns out, as showcased in the Hyundai Motor Group Innovation Center Singapore...
2/19/2025 1:11:38 PM How will the Trump administration affect the UK biotech industry? By Sophie Topham Gareth Williams Donald Trump’s return to the White House has brought with it some fast-paced changes to global politics and markets, and the biotech...
12/23/2024 12:53:12 PM All change for UK SPCs By Gareth Williams Since Brexit, the UK has had a somewhat confusing situation regarding medicinal marketing authorisations (MAs) and supplementary...
12/19/2024 4:15:38 PM An early Christmas present for combination products By Gareth Williams As always, the CJEU continue to refine the rules regarding obtaining SPCs in Europe. The latest judgment on combination products leaves...
11/18/2024 10:45:31 AM Navigating the shifting sands of biotechnology patenting By Will Arends Taken from a webinar between Suzanne Renes, Nicole Mastrangelo and David Diamond on 24 September 2024, chaired by Will Arends (Partner,...
8/15/2024 8:22:22 AM Combatting antimicrobial resistance By Gareth Williams Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is one of the major current health concerns. Resistant strains which have emerged recently include...
7/24/2024 11:08:41 AM Taking Charge of Our Health: Medical Wearables By Kameel Kaur Bassi Medical wearables have come a long way from the traditional fitness trackers and heart rate monitors that first flooded the market. From...
7/18/2024 10:21:54 AM Concussion biomarkers linked to MND By Tom Grendon If you have been following the news recently, you may well have seen that Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been in the headlines more and...
7/9/2024 2:59:17 PM Celebrating a vaccine success By Paul Chapman Vaccines are not new. Edward Jenner, although not the inventor of vaccination, certainly pioneered vaccination and developed the first...
7/1/2024 8:56:36 AM Jumping Genes! By Gareth Williams This is a potentially exciting new development in the world of genome engineering. Researchers have used bacterial transposons - mobile...
6/28/2024 10:06:35 AM Fungi not so fun guys any more By Gareth Williams If you've seen or played The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic survival horror game/show, you'll be familiar with the idea that fungal...