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In this edition:

• Spotlight of the month: Sustainability
• The Unitary Patent approaches the finish line: What’s next for patent owners?
• Have you identified your business’s intangible assets?
• UK Government launches IP and artificial intelligence consultation
• IP valuation: key considerations to strengthen business transactions
• National STEM Day 2021: Mathys & Squire collaborates with UKESF to spotlight careers in electronics
• Budget 2021: Innovation funding to support the UK’s position as a ‘global science superpower’

In this edition:

• Spotlight of the month: Security bonds required for UK businesses to litigate in the EU
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 awarded for the development of new asymmetric catalysts
• Spotlight on COP26: The significance of innovation in tackling climate change
• Enapter wins inaugural Earthshot Prize for ‘Fix Our Climate’ category
• Government releases first National AI Strategy to establish UK as ‘global AI superpower’
• Blockchain patents – comparing the approach of patent offices
• ‘Outstanding’ Mathys & Squire teams ranked in The Legal 500
• Event: Better World Collective Summit 2021

In this edition:

• Spotlight of the month: Is blockchain patentable?
• World Pharmacists Day: IP in the pharmaceutical industry
• The importance of intangible assets for your startup
• IPO launches IP Access grant funding scheme to help innovative UK-based SMEs
• Mathys & Squire celebrates four ‘world-class IP strategists’ in latest IAM Strategy 300 directory
• Event: Advanced Therapies Congress & Expo 2021

In this edition:

• Spotlight of the month: World Entrepreneurs’ Day 2021 
• Mathys & Squire appoints first COO
• Has your IP been created in collaboration with a third party?
• Australian Federal Court says an AI can be the inventor
• EPO decision T 96/20: Does this raise the inventive step bar for medical use inventions?
• Webinar: Intermediate generalisation (added matter) at the EPO
• Events: PROGRESS21 and NEAA Expo 2021

In this edition:

• Spotlight of the month: The importance of NDAs and confidentiality agreements
• South Africa issues world’s first patent naming AI as inventor
• EPO Enlarged Board issues order in G 1/21
• Federal Constitutional Court clears the way for the Unified Patent Court
• Nine Mathys & Squire attorneys recommended in IAM Patent 1000
• Webinar: Intermediate generalisation (added matter) at the EPO

In this edition:

• Spotlight of the month: Recent directory awards for the Mathys & Squire team
• EPO confirms prohibition on double patenting – but leaves questions outstanding
• CITMA report shows record surge in UK trade mark applications in 2021
• Filing an opposition as a straw man: the pros and cons
• Mathys & Squire Consulting partners with Inkvine Communications
• Webinar recording: UKBAA Friday Focus – The importance of a solid IP strategy
• Webinar recording: Balancing clinical trial disclosures with sufficiency and inventive step requirements