The UK IPO have issued new guidance on intellectual property during the Brexit transition period.

All European patent eyes were turned to Munich this week, and the much anticipated EPO Board of Appeal hearing in The Broad Institute's CRISPR case. In news that surprised no European Patent Attorneys at all (!), the appeal was dismissed, The Broad Institute's priority claim was held to be invalid, and the patent was revoked.

We are very much looking forward to presenting tomorrow at Innovation Forum Manchester's: 'Start-up Science: Entrepreneurship in Science' in the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School.

The European Patent Office predominantly uses the "problem-solution-approach" to assess whether an invention involves an inventive step. But what happens if the closest prior art document is not enabled, or if the results it describes are not reproducibly obtainable, because essential information is missing? And what if the secondary prior art document arguably discloses some of the information missing in the CPAD, but in a quite different context and without essential inform

We are exhibiting and presenting at the Alderley Park Professional Services Showcase on Friday 23rd November, 2018. Come and say hello!