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No Country for New Laws

Trailblazing developments in Artificial Intelligence have left a litany of complex legal cases in their wake, and judges are tasked with deciding how old law should be interpreted against the backdrop of this technological revolution. Comptroller-Gen...

Trade Secrets vs. Patents in the UK Space Sector

In this article we take a look at how trade secrets and patents compare as means of protecting inventions by UK space sector businesses. Background Properly protecting intellectual property is a key issue for innovative UK space sector businesses. ...

The UK National Semiconductor Strategy: a first glance

The UK Government has released its National Semiconductor Strategy. The Strategy sets out the UK Government’s vision for the semiconductor industry in the UK, and details funding and other initiatives that it plans to put in place to support the ...

InterDigital v Lenovo [2023] EWCA Civ 34

Background At first instance, His Honour Justice Hacon found EP 2 485 558 valid and essential to LTE. Lenovo were granted permission to appeal by Lord Justice Arnold against a finding of inventive step over a Samsung document submitted during the stan...

Damages pull into the station for Geofabrics

Charlotte May KC recently handed down a comparatively rare judgment, for the Patents Court, in respect of a damages enquiry for infringement of Geofabrics’ railway related patent by Fiberweb in Geofabrics Ltd v Fiberweb Geosynthetics Ltd [2022] E...