EIP Career Talks is a special edition of EIP Talks where Chris Ball, Head of Talent Acquisition at EIP, speaks to a panel of EIPers about what it's like to build a career in the IP sector. In this episode, Chris talks to Emily Owen, Trainee Patent Attorney at EIP, about her experience during her internship with the firm.

11th February is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To bring more awareness to the gender gap that still exists in STEM but also to some positive developments towards equality, we invited two of our Patent Attorneys to talk about their experience. Listen to Natalie Falls, Senior Associate at EIP, and Rosie McDowell, Associate at EIP, talk about their journey in science and legal.

We all know that the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is big news in the patent world. Beyond the legal updates, businesses need to know how the UPC affects them practically. How can the UPC add value, and how to manage the risks? The UPC will need a collaborative approach between litigators and prosecutors. Listen to Matthew Blaseby, European/UK patent prosecutor, and Christof Höhne, German patent litigator, work through a simple, fictional, scenario to demonstrate some of the practical considerations for the UPC.

Matthew Blaseby, European/UK patent attorney and partner at EIP, and Derk Visser, 30 year author of the well-known textbook on the EPC and 2020 winner of Managing IP’s Lifetime Achievement Award, discuss the EPC and its changes over the years. Listen to Derk’s thoughts on the following questions: “is the European Patent Office too strict?”, “how has my understanding of inventive step changed?”, and “I wish I’d understood this sooner in my study of the law” and more!

We are diverting from our usual topics for International Women’s Day. This episode of EIP Talks focuses on breaking bias, a topic that affects us all, not just women, in our everyday working life. Listen to Monika Rai, Partner at EIP, Kathleen Fox Murphy, Partner at EIP, and Arti Shah, Actress and Motivational Speaker, discuss the impact of bias in the workplace and how we can all overcome bias.