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UK Patents Court - The Enzalutamide Decision
Posted: 17/10/2024
In this video, Dr Duncan Curley discusses the recent Enzalutamide decision made by the UK Patents Court on October 8th, 2024. This case concerned one of the leading prostate cancer treatments, Astellas’ Xtandi®.
Supreme Court rules that AI system cannot be named as inventor on UK patent
Posted: 10/01/2024
After four years of legal proceedings the UK Supreme Court has now finally settled the question of whether an AI system can be an inventor on a UK patent. In Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] UKSC 49, the court decided that a patent application which names an AI system as the inventor cannot proceed......>>
Consultants and collaborations: beware patent ownership pitfalls
Posted: 11/08/2023
In the ruling of OUI v ONI, IP ownership in the context of an academic entity was at the core of the matter. The law that lay at the root of that dispute concerned ownership of inventions, as specified in the UK Patents Act 1977. This law can also impact on the relationship between companies and retained technical consultants......>>
McDonald’s able to prove use of its BIG MAC EUTM
Posted: 20/03/2023
McDonald’s has successfully overturned the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) decision that it failed to prove use of its EUTM ‘BIG MAC’ for the goods and services for which it is registered (a range of goods and services in classes 29, 30 and 42), by successfully applying to the Board of Appeal for permission......>>
EasyGroup succeeds in unfair advantage claim in trade mark dispute (Easygroup Ltd v Easy Live Services Ltd)
Posted: 03/02/2023
Easygroup Ltd (‘easyGroup’) has succeeded in establishing that certain use made by Easy Live (Services) Ltd and its directors (together ‘Easy Live’) of ‘easyLiveAuction.com’ signs took unfair advantage of easyGroup trade marks under section 10(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994 (TMA 1994). However, this came at a cost......>>

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