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IPO considers next steps for SEPs
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is considering introducing a special licensing track and specialist pre-action protocols for standard essential patents (SEPs)
16 July 2025
Logo wars transform the aisles
Tesco must change its Clubcard discount scheme logo, following a Court of Appeal ruling in its dispute with Lidl
20 March 2024
AI patent allowed for the first time
The High Court has handed down a landmark ruling on artificial intelligence (AI), which will allow key aspects of AI to be patented in the UK for the first time
29 November 2023
AI patent allowed for the first time
The High Court has handed down a landmark ruling on artificial intelligence (AI), which will allow key aspects of AI to be patented in the UK for the first time
23 November 2023
Patent law: the grace is on? Premium Content
Where does UK patent law stand on grace periods for disclosure? Phillip Johnson assesses the changing landscape
10 June 2022
DABUS the inventor
Intellectual property (IP) officials in South Africa have made history by awarding a patent that names an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor
05 August 2021
Battle of UniLaw
The University of Law has lost the main parts of a trademark case against one of its former law students over the mark ‘UniLaw’
24 November 2020
Broken promises & the UK Internal Market Bill Premium Content
Mark Engelman outlines how the ‘Perfidious Albion’ of the government’s proposed intentions to breach an international treaty is nothing new
24 September 2020 / Professor Mark Engelman
Minnow out-swims big fish in hair care war
The Supreme Court has rejected French cosmetics giant L’Oréal’s application to appeal a patent infringement case brought by Californian start-up Olaplex
28 June 2020
Fast patents
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) claims to be offering the world’s fastest application-to-grant patent
27 April 2020
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NLJ this week: Employment law’s fine margins
From gender-critical speech to notice periods and incapability dismissals, employment law continues to turn on fine distinctions. In his latest employment law brief for NLJ, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School reviews a cluster of recent decisions, led by Bailey v Stonewall, where the Court of Appeal clarified the limits of third-party liability under the Equality Act
NLJ this week: Promises broken on non-molestation orders?
Non-molestation orders are meant to be the frontline defence against domestic abuse, yet their enforcement often falls short. Writing in NLJ this week, Jeni Kavanagh, Jessica Mortimer and Oliver Kavanagh analyse why the criminalisation of breach has failed to deliver consistent protection
NLJ this week: Assisted dying under the legal microscope
Assisted dying remains one of the most fraught fault lines in English law, where compassion and criminal liability sit uncomfortably close. Writing in NLJ this week, Julie Gowland and Barny Croft of Birketts examine how acts motivated by care—booking travel, completing paperwork, or offering emotional support—can still fall within the wide reach of the Suicide Act 1961
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