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Cloudy skies ahead for Aldi – Thatchers reigns victorious over Aldi’s imitation cider
Posted: 11/02/2025
The Court of Appeal recently handed down a decision in which it partly overturned the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court’s (IPEC) judgment and found that Aldi's packaging took unfair advantage of Thatchers' well-known trade mark. Thatchers alleged that its registered trade mark (depicted below) was being infringed by Aldi’s own......>>
The Cladribine Decision
Posted: 11/02/2025
In this video, Dr Duncan Curley, a Partner in our Patents team, discusses the recent UK Court of Appeal decision on Merck Serono's cladribine product, Mavenclad.
Court breaks up representative action romance: Getty Images v Stability AI
Posted: 10/02/2025
The case of Getty Images (US) Inc and Ors v Stability AI Ltd [2025] EWHC 38 (Ch), which the team previously reported on (see here), continues to progress through the English High Court. Most recently, the claimants sought for Thomas M Barwick Inc, the sixth claimant, to act as a representative for a class of individuals in the claim. On 14 January......>>
Forging collaborations: the power of commercial agreements
Posted: 17/12/2024
Although not strictly intellectual property rights, trade secrets and other confidential information are an important means by which early-stage companies can gain a competitive advantage. Confidential information is protected without further formality by an enforceable equitable duty of confidence, but are more commonly protected by......>>
Supreme Court’s decision in Sky v SkyKick is a warning to those filing overly broad trade mark specifications
Posted: 12/12/2024
The long-running saga of Sky v Skykick has continued this year, coming before the Supreme Court. On 13 November 2024, it rendered its judgment on the latest instalment of these proceedings and importantly, the highly anticipated issue of bad faith in trade mark filings. The issues to be addressed by the Supreme Court were twofold......>>

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BioBrief - December 2024
This winter edition of BioBrief, our newsletter for the life sciences sector, comes to you after our inaugural Life Sciences Conference on “Clinical Trials And AI: Legal Challenges and Pitfalls” in November. I summarise what was a fantastic day in the article below.

BioBrief - August 2023
In this edition of BioBrief, we look in detail at a recent case involving university-generated intellectual property and in particular the position of students who contribute to such IP. On a related topic, I give some practical, high-level guidance on the legal position relating to the ownership of inventions when outside consultants are involved.

BioBrief - April 2023
Following recent shockwaves throughout the sector caused by the demise of SVB, in this month’s BioBrief, we provide a link to a timely discussion of the funding options for early stage life sciences companies, published by our friends at OBN.

BioBrief - November 2022
A key strategic issue for many seeking partnerships with Big Pharma or other sources of funding is the robustness of the patent portfolio. IP issues feature in two contributions to this month’s BioBrief: in the first, my colleague Dr Amanda Easey and I present a videocast on the recent decision of the Patents Court.

BioBrief - May 2022
Welcome to the spring edition of BioBrief. We start this edition with an article I wrote recently for OBN Connect magazine which covers the challenges faced by Biotech founders on spin-out and the career change it requires. This is something that I am familiar with as I changed my career from project manager of global clinical trials for IQVIA to being an IP lawyer.

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