05 Feb, 2024 A patent perspective on the battle against cancer By Rebecca Lawrence 4 February is World Cancer Day, an international day marked to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and...
13 Dec, 2023 Experimental evidence in patent litigation – Rules for fair play By Rebecca Lawrence The technical nature of patent litigation means that experiments are often an essential (and sometimes the only) way to prove key aspects...
28 Sep, 2023 Regulation and patentability of NGT plants – what’s next for the UK? By Rebecca Lawrence Dharma Carlin EU Commission Proposal On 5 July 2023, the European Commission proposed a new legislative initiative regarding plants obtained by...
30 Aug, 2023 Bifurcation before the UPC – who filed it first? By Rebecca Lawrence Mary Foord-Weston The Unified Patent Court (UPC) launched on 1 June 2023 and has the power to determine infringement and validity of new Unitary Patents...