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When life gives you lemons: Brothers Drinks Co. Ltd v Thatchers Cider Company Limited (CLOUDY LEMON)
Partner and trade mark attorney Robert Cumming, and trainee trade mark attorney Claire Bothma, discuss if a mark which is descriptive for goods, is also descriptive for the retails of those goods.
Global patent filing data reveals increasing investment in insect-based proteins
This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
Delaying grant of a European Patent to obtain a Unitary Patent
With 1 October 2022 being the possible start date of the Unitary Patent system, applicants achieving allowance of their European patent applications in the coming months may wish to delay grant so as to obtain a Unitary Patent (UP).
Green hydrogen patent filings on upward trajectory
This year’s report on energy revealed green hydrogen patent filings are reaching global highs.
Is ‘evergreening’ abuse of the trade mark system?
Following a recent dispute between Tesco’s and Lidl, partner, trade mark attorney and solicitor Robert Cumming, and trainee trade mark attorney Lisa Thomson, discuss ‘bad faith’, and ‘evergreening’.
G2/21 Plausibility – The Enlarged Board of Appeal has heard the final arguments on whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive step
Patent attorneys Edward Rainsford and Sarah Gibbs discuss the recent verdict, delivered by the Enlarged Board of Appeal, on whether post-filed data can be used to support inventive step.
