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G1/23: The Enlarged Board of Appeal shift EPO practice towards an “on-sale” bar.
Last week, the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) issued its Decision that both a product put on the market before the date of filing of a European patent application, …
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Agritech Thymes: A review of protection for gene edited plants
As we head into a new season, it’s a good time to revisit the current status of protection for Essentially Derived Varieties (EDVs) and plants derived from New Genomic Techniques …
Read articleIs the Supreme Court denial in Thatcher’s case a fatal blow against lookalikes?
The dispute between Thatcher’s Cider Company and Aldi Stores Limited has been long running and has sparked legal controversy along the way. On 4th June 2025 the Supreme denied Aldi …
Read articleThe Enlarged Board of Appeal has today issued its decision in seminal case G1/24.
G1/24, described as one of the most important cases in decades, relates to how claims of patents are to be interpreted by the Boards of Appeal and, by extension, all …
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UPC’s Hamburg Local Division provides guidance on the extent to which a patent may be used as its own “lexicon”
Agfa NV v Gucci & Anors. [UPC_CFI_278/2023] – Hamburg Local Division of the UPC (Klepsch, Schilling, Sarlin) – 30 April 2025 While we await a decision on G1/24 from the …
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Agritech Thymes: Agritech 2030: Forecasting the Technologies Poised to Transform Farming
Whilst yet to recover to the levels of 2011-2021, where capital invested in agritech increased 20-fold, investor funding in agritech is starting to pick up, and 2025 is set to …
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IP Ingredients: What Will The EU’s Design Reform Package Do For Food & Drink Businesses?
As reported by our colleague Joanne Meredith in her recent post (click here to read), Phase One of the EU’s “Design Reform Package” became effective on 1 May 2025, with …
Read articleBabek International Limited v Iceland Foods Limited [2025] EWHC 547 (IPEC)
In a significant ruling on 11 March 2025, IPEC upheld the validity of Babek International Limited’s UK trade mark for ‘BABEK’ in its case against Iceland Foods Limited. The judgment …
Read articleA Red Card for Dream Pairs? Dream Pairs Kicks Ongoing Trade Mark Infringement Dispute to the Supreme Court
In 2023 Iconix Luxembourg Holdings SARL (Iconix) filed a trade mark infringement claim against Dream Pairs Europe Inc (Dream Pairs), in relation to the below logos. Iconix own the sportwear …
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