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Our services are centred around intellectual property that can be registered. We protect innovation, design, and branding across all sectors of industry, and at all stages in the supply chain.

For each IP right we offer services covering strategic advice, pre-registration searches, registrations and renewals, oppositions and dispute resolution. We handle work throughout the world, working with local colleagues in over 100 countries.

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Our attorneys specialise in one or more sectors of industry, which enables them to provide quality advice with a commercial focus.

Our patent specialists have detailed understanding of the background technology, which ensures that your patent applications are prepared with the correct scope, reducing the likelihood of challenges from third parties and objections from the patent office.

They also advise whether other forms of protection would be more appropriate. Our brand specialists work with brand managers for leading brands and their advice is commercially focussed making sure that you get the best value from your budget.

25th Aug 2023

Machine learning controlling the skies – Decision T0270/20 of the Technical Board of Appeal (EP Application 17382762.7 – The Boeing Company – 19 June 2023)

Decision T0270/20 relates to an appeal against the (EPO) Examining Division’s decision to refuse European patent application 17382762.7 directed to the calculation and execution of an aircraft flight plan using machine learning techniques. The Examining Division had taken a predominantly negative view of the application, arguing that the subject matter of the claims was not technical, and therefore not inventive (lack of Inventive Step under Article 56 EPC), or if technical, not adequately disclosed (insufficiency under Article 83 EPC). The Appeal Board took the opposite view, arguing that the Examining Division had erred and ordering the case to be remitted back for further examination.

11th Aug 2022

Machine learning in life sciences – a trend that is here to stay?

The amount of data generated in life sciences is increasing exponentially. This has largely been precipitated by the advent of “-omics” technologies which facilitate high-throughput measurement of all molecules of a certain type from a biological sample. Whereas once a PhD project may have been concerned with analysing the expression of a single gene, nowadays a PhD project more likely involves collecting information about the expression of all genes in multiple cell types and conditions. This has left researchers data-rich, but not necessarily information-rich. However, machine learning approaches can be used to interrogate these large datasets for trends or patterns to provide information.

29th Jan 2021

Spot-ify the difference – Patents and AI in the Music Industry?

AI is increasingly used in all areas of businesses to give companies an edge over their competitors, and the music industry is no exception. One example of such a use over the past few decades is how people have used AI to write music. This involves feeding an AI large amounts of data from music and the AI learning what musical characteristics and patterns a listener will enjoy. AI has even been able to create music to fit a specific genre.

9th Apr 2020

The Rise of Ocado: An Intellectual Property Success Story

rocery delivery service Ocado was forced to temporarily suspend parts of its online service last month due to coronavirus (Covid-19). The panic buying induced by the virus resulted in a tenfold increase demand.[1][2] However, even before this unprecedented surge Ocado has been steadily growing over recent years. A quick Google search shows the impressive growth of Ocado’s share price since its initial public offering. Investment in technology and intellectual property (IP) have played a major role in this growth.

20th Mar 2020

Move over Medical

In a report of 12 March 2020 titled Digital technologies take top spot in European patent applications, the European Patent Office reports overall European patent applications were up by 4% in 2019 compared to 2018. Best performer in 2019 was digital communications with an almost 20% rise pushing medical technologies off the top filing technology spot for the first time since 2006.

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