FICPI Blog

... applicants have struggled to patent inventions in the US, most notably in medical diagnostics and computer-implemented inventions, while such inventions can be patented...

Ian Gill of AA Thornton in the UK, on tips, apps and gadgets to avoid jet lag...

The impact of the court’s decision in Cellect was particularly acute because the reference patents on which the ODP findings were based had all...

IP litigation, especially patent litigation, whether in the UK, Europe or the US is prohibitively expensive. SME clients do not want to spend their...

As research and development efforts move forward in relation to Chimeric antigen receptor CAR-T cells, it is interesting to understand the main patentability issues of...

Genome editing using Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated 9 (Cas-9) technology holds great potential to accelerate life science research, improve biotechnology, and...

This case study follows on from Ian Gill’s recent blog and book review on the productivity book, “A World Without Emails”, by Cal Newport....

Since the widespread use of emails began in the 1990s, the average efficiency of the knowledge worker has not materially improved...