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Intellectual Property Firm Appleyard Lees Appoints New Partner
Appleyard Lees is delighted to announce that patent attorney, Paul Beynon (MEng, CPA, EPA), joined the partnership on 1 April 2024.
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Intellectual Property Firm Appleyard Lees Appoints New Managing Partner
Bobby Smithson, Partner at leading intellectual property law firm Appleyard Lees, has been appointed as the firm’s Managing Partner, effective 1 January 2024.
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The third edition of Appleyard Lees’ Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report is now live
Our annual report provides a comprehensive review of global growth in green innovation, using patent data as a barometer of activity.
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Glossary of patent terms – part 1
In this two-part glossary, Appleyard Lees partner and patent attorney Parminder Lally, and trainee patent attorneys Debora Dorn and Ryan Newcombe, take you through some of the key terminology you may come across when you’re going through the patent process.
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Appleyard Lees Appoints Head of IP Commercial Contracts to Support Clients of all Sizes
Commercial and intellectual property solicitor Amritjot Jethwa has joined Appleyard Lees as the firm’s first Head of Commercial IP Contracts.
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IP Due Diligence and How to Build a Strong IP Foundation
Appleyard Lees' Barbara Fleck will be on hand to answer your questions at this One Nucleus invitation only event on 14 November 2023 from 09:00–11:00 at Pennintons Manches Cooper LLP's offices in Cambridge.
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Should European patent applications be opted-out of the Unified Patent Court?
The EU patent package establishing a Unitary Patent (UP) providing EU-wide patent coverage and a Unified Patent Court (UPC) to enforce such patents entered into force on 1 June 2023, and our clients are deciding whether or not to opt out their existing European patents from the jurisdiction of the UPC. To date most of the discussion has centred around opting out existing granted European patents. However, some of our clients have also been considering whether they should opt out their pending European patent applications. We therefore consider below some of the issues that should be considered in this regard.
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UK and European patent attorneys Chris Mason and Parminder Lally join Appleyard Lees partnership
Appleyard Lees is delighted to announce that patent attorneys Chris Mason (MSci(Hons), LLM, MRSC, CPA, EPA) and Parminder Lally (MSci, PhD, CPA, EPA) joined the Appleyard Lees partnership as of 1 April 2023.
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Bill Lister retires from Appleyard Lees
Appleyard Lees partner Bill Lister, a solicitor, Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and CMC Registered Mediator, retired from the partnership on 31 March 2023. Bill will continue to work as a consultant for the firm.
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T 0702/20: patentability of a sparsely connected neural network
In T 0702/20, the Board of Appeal considered the patentability of a sparsely connected neural network in EP 14882049.1 to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. This is one of the first cases to consider the patentability of core AI at the EPO.
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Surge in solid-state battery innovation and recent recycling patents boost sustainability
The second annual edition of the Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2022, from leading intellectual property firm Appleyard Lees, analyses patent filings across several key environmental issues facing the world, including electric vehicle batteries.
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Eating protein from lab-grown, plant and insect sources takes giant steps to wider consumption
The second annual edition of the Inside Green Innovation: Progress Report 2022, from leading intellectual property firm Appleyard Lees’, analyses patent filings across several key environmental issues facing the world, including alternative protein.
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Success again for intellectual property law firm Appleyard Lees at the Cambridgeshire Law Society Legal Excellence Awards 2022
The Cambridge-based team of leading intellectual property law firm Appleyard Lees was judged ‘Highly Commended’ in the ‘IP Team of the Year’ award category at last week’s Cambridgeshire Law Society Legal Excellence Awards. Patent attorney and senior associate Parminder Lally had individual success and received the ‘Rising Star of The Year’ award – the second year in a row this accolade has been awarded to someone at Appleyard Lees.
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