Tufty the Cat

Readers who have followed the long-running saga of COPA v Wright may have noticed that I made a minor cameo appearance in it. Not as a witn...

Partial priority is one of those areas of European patent law that seems straightforward once the Enlarged Board has explained it, right up...

Defining an invention solely in terms of a result to be achieved (colloquially termed "free beer" claiming) is a risky business an...

As we all now know, the Aerotel test for assessing patentability in the UK is no more. We are currently waiting for the UK IPO to reassess t...

As everyone knows by now, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the Emotional Perception case last week. There is plenty of commenta...

Following up from my earlier post about the referral to the Enlarged Board, now that the period for filing written submissions (or 'ami...