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 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...
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...
01 Oct, 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,...
30 Sep, 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...
27 Sep, 2024 UPC rejects challenge on jurisdiction over internet related infringement By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert Daniyal Khan In an order dated 3 September 2024 (UPC_CoA_188/2024) the UPC Court of Appeal held that the UPC has international jurisdiction in respect...
24 Sep, 2024 UPC Confirms Determination of Closest Prior Art to be Unnecessary By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In light of the UPC’s stated aim of concluding first instance proceedings within a year of their initiation, it comes as no surprise that...
23 Sep, 2024 UPC Confirms Electronic Service can only be Effected via the Registry By Thomas Prock Mike Gilbert In the ongoing appeal lodged by Alexion against the CFI’s refusal of provisional measures against a large group of Amgen defendants, the...
20 Sep, 2024 The Pokémon Company to finally battle it out with Palworld developer Pocketpair By Adam Wilson Back in March, when asked whether he was concerned the newly released Palworld (dubbed by the internet as “Pokémon with guns”) was...
13 Sep, 2024 M&C in the news: Intellectual Property Office Innovation and Growth Report 2023/24 By M&C Newsroom Earlier this week, Richard Gibbs, Partner at Marks & Clerk, was quoted in Law360, emphasising the pivotal role of the UK Intellectual...