This article is based upon a presentation given at the CIPA Life Sciences conference in November 2023 and has been updated to take account of more recent EPO decisions relating…
Nicholas Fox (Fellow) and Christopher Ashcroft (Student) review the correlation between European Patent Office opposition rates and opt-out rates in the Unified Patent Court. By default, European patents granted by…
By the Bristows team – Dominic Adair, Katie Cambrook, Brian Cordery, Amy Cullen, Chloe Dickson, Charlie French, Matthew Hunt, Nicholas Round, Jonathan Ross and Lucy Sewter. Introduction For patent practitioners…
A recent Intellectual Property Regulation Board (IPReg) diversity survey[1] revealed that while figures around social mobility in the IP profession in the UK were encouraging – 43% of the respondents…
