COP26: Clean-tech innovators at the forefront of climate change crisis
Innovation has been placed at the heart of the COP26 summit, with new green technologies playing an essential part in each country’s strategy to stay on track to reach net zero by 2050 to achieve… read more…
EPO referral G2/21: Can post-filed evidence be used to demonstrate the existence of a technical effect for patentability?
In recent European Patent Office (EPO) Decision T 116/18, the Board of Appeal has referred important questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) regarding the issue of to what extent an… read more…
Chemistry Week 2021: How chemistry is driving sustainability through electric vehicle battery technology
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has opted to hold its annual Chemistry Week this year on 1-12 November 2021, to coincide with the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) … read more…
IP horror stories: Cautionary tales in protecting your innovations
With Halloween only two days away, we are bringing you some of the scariest scenarios our patent and trade mark attorneys face! Here, we are ‘creeping’ it real and sharing our first-hand… read more…
Budget 2021: Innovation funding to support the UK’s position as a ‘global science superpower’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered the Autumn budget 2021 statement, with a target of building a stronger post-pandemic economy for the UK Of particular interest to us is the government’s focus… read more…
Added matter in medical use claims – EPO applies greater scrutiny in T 2842/18
The European Patent Office (EPO) has a notoriously strict approach to assessing added matter according to Article 123(2) EPC In the recent decision T 2842/18, the EPO’s Technical Board of Appeal… read more…
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 awarded for the development of new asymmetric catalysts
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in the field of Chemistry to both Benjamin List of the Max-Planck Institute and David WC MacMillan of Princeton University, who… read more…
UK firms now paying £50,000+ ‘security bond’ to litigate in EU post-Brexit
Mathys & Squire has featured in an exclusive article published by The Telegraph, covering the introduction of so-called ‘security bonds’ of at least £50,000 for UK businesses seeking to… read more…
Spotlight on COP26: The significance of innovation in tackling climate change
The United Nations’ 26th Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP26) will run from 31 October – 12 November 2021 in Glasgow The Conference brings together… read more…
