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IPO considers next steps for SEPs
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is considering introducing a special licensing track and specialist pre-action protocols for standard essential patents (SEPs)
16 July 2025
Logo wars transform the aisles
Tesco must change its Clubcard discount scheme logo, following a Court of Appeal ruling in its dispute with Lidl
20 March 2024
AI patent allowed for the first time
The High Court has handed down a landmark ruling on artificial intelligence (AI), which will allow key aspects of AI to be patented in the UK for the first time
29 November 2023
AI patent allowed for the first time
The High Court has handed down a landmark ruling on artificial intelligence (AI), which will allow key aspects of AI to be patented in the UK for the first time
23 November 2023
Patent law: the grace is on? Premium Content
Where does UK patent law stand on grace periods for disclosure? Phillip Johnson assesses the changing landscape
10 June 2022
DABUS the inventor
Intellectual property (IP) officials in South Africa have made history by awarding a patent that names an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor
05 August 2021
Battle of UniLaw
The University of Law has lost the main parts of a trademark case against one of its former law students over the mark ‘UniLaw’
24 November 2020
Broken promises & the UK Internal Market Bill Premium Content
Mark Engelman outlines how the ‘Perfidious Albion’ of the government’s proposed intentions to breach an international treaty is nothing new
24 September 2020 / Professor Mark Engelman
Minnow out-swims big fish in hair care war
The Supreme Court has rejected French cosmetics giant L’Oréal’s application to appeal a patent infringement case brought by Californian start-up Olaplex
28 June 2020
Fast patents
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) claims to be offering the world’s fastest application-to-grant patent
27 April 2020
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Online safety against serious harm
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
Law reform ahead
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Bullying & harassment at the Bar
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
The Sentencing Bill: Crime & punishment revisited
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
Changing faces
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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