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IP Ingredients Blog, Parts 11-20

April 2024

Welcome to our blog series, IP Ingredients, created by our Food & Drink Team. This blog will explore the latest IP news, updates, and discussions in the food & drink sector.

Understanding how intellectual property is relevant to your food or drink company, and how to leverage different IP rights for business success can be tricky.

To help you untangle some of these issues, HGF attorneys Jennifer Bailey and Tanya Waller, together with other members of HGF’s Food & Drink team, have launched a new series of articles, “IP Ingredients”, which provides an introduction to IP in the food and drink field as well as giving lots of practical advice.

Part 11: Exploring colours in the food & drink sector – a patent perspective

In the eleventh edition of this series, “Exploring colours in the food & drink sector” , we discuss how the visual appearance, especially the colour, of a food or beverage product is one of the first things that a consumer will assess, using this information to decide whether a product looks good enough to taste or purchase.

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Happy World IP Day!

This year’s theme is ‘IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity’. At HGF we are committed to supporting our clients in sustainable technologies and routinely …

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IP Ingredients, Part 12: Exploring colours in the food & drink sector – overcoming hurdles and leveraging colour trade marks

We will all recognise as consumers an instance of when we used the colour of a product or its packaging to identify a specific brand that we wanted to buy …

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Medical 3D Technologies: From Scanning to Printing

When we think of 3D technologies, we often think of 3D printing, which, as discussed later, has seen rapid advances in recent years. However, a sometimes overlooked area of medical …

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Opinion Piece: Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court in Ireland

Intellectual Property (IP) is a core part of any business and particularly is a vital part of the strategic toolkit for any business that creates value through innovation and constant …

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