The CJEU has handled the Hungarian referral in case C-181/24 with a straightforward confirmation that an application for a SPC must be based on the first marketing authorisation for the product.
The Danish Consumer Ombudsman very recently published new recommendations relating to environmental marketing designed to help businesses avoid greenwashing.
In recent years, greenwashing in cosmetics has come under increased legal scrutiny.
The CJEU has handled the Hungarian referral in case C-181/24 with a straightforward confirmation that an application for a SPC must be based on the first marketing authorisation for the product.
If your next invention is going to have the commercial impact it should, you will need to correctly identify, protect, exploit, and enforce it. This is exactly what Potter Clarkson’s patent attorneys in Copenhagen do.
The Supreme Administrative Court in the Czech Republic has asked the CJEU whether a substance classified as an excipient in a marketing authorisation can still be considered an active ingredient for an SPC application, and what information is needed for an additional active ingredient to be "specifically identifiable" based on the patent.
We are delighted to report that our client, Proteotype Diagnostics Ltd, has just been awarded a £1.5 million Cancer Mission Grant to advance the groundbreaking work they have been doing in early cancer detection with their innovative Enlighten™ test.
Did you know that lots of companies are looking to nature to make new textiles, construction materials, wound dressings, and other vital materials?
Pressures of climate change, resistance, regulatory pressures, and yield improvement require new crop protection molecules.
Anybody who has worked in a lab will know that getting a protocol to work isn’t as simple as just following the instructions printed in a journal. Even routine optimisation takes a lot of time, once you know the secret it’s easy to replicate, and protecting this knowledge can be very valuable to biotech companies.
In a press release earlier this month, the UK government unveiled several new announcements to drive innovation in science. This comes alongside a rallying call “to put science and technology at the very top of the UK’s priorities”.
The EU Parliament has voted on new legislature that could significantly shake up the patentability and commercialisation of gene-edited plants in Europe.
Eggs are serious business, with 12.6 billion eaten each year in the UK (or 188 per capita), and meeting this demand requires the efforts of over 39 million commercial hens.
As you’re participating in the Food & Bio Summit, you will have a serious interest in the biotechnical aspects of the food and drink industry. Moreover, you will have a serious interest in the different ways we can transform our current food systems to create more sustainable ecosystems and the part both business and science will need to play in this transformation.
Where traditional chemical synthesis is faltering, however, molecular and synthetic biology is providing solutions.