Carpmaels & Ransford

🎊 Congratulations to Hugh Goodfellow, Harvey V J Adams, John Brunner, James Warner and Cameron Marshall for achieving recognition as some of the world’s top private practice experts in the field of patents in the 2025 edition of IAM Global Leaders. #GlobalLeaders #Patents

No slice of the PI for Ericsson. 💻 Peter Herrick, John Brunner and Agathe Michel-de Cazotte provide insight on a recent decision at the UPC where the Lisbon Local Division rejects Ericsson’s preliminary injunction request because of a lack of urgency. #UPC #PreliminaryInjunction https://lnkd.in/dfvHjTAD

💡Our IP Energy experts, Russell Woolley and Lawrence Paleschi, are looking forward to discussions on future energy trends and innovations at tomorrow’s FT Energy Transition Summit #FTEnergy #Energy #IPExperts 

Our latest article reports on a surprise decision T56/21, in which an EPO Board of Appeal has, despite widespread expectations, decided not to refer questions to the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal regarding whether there is legal basis for mandating “amended descriptions” at the EPO (in sense of amendments to conform the description to the claims). Richard Newell and John Snape summarise the decision with a focus on potential immediate and long-term impacts on practice. https://lnkd.in/e3K487KN

🏆 Team Carpmaels is thrilled to have won the EPO Prosecution Firm of the Year Award at the IAM and WTR Global IP Awards 2024. This accolade highlights our unique integrated service, with the same team handling parallel disputes in the EPO, UPC and UK courts, while also coordinating national actions across Europe. #EPOProsecution #Awards

🎓 We're at the Engineering and Technology careers fair at Imperial College London today! Come and have a chat with us at our stand to learn more about a career in intellectual property. #EngineeringandTech #Engineering #IntelletualProperty #STEMCareers

🎉 Huge congratulations to Team Carpmaels & Ransford for retaining our Band 1 ranking in Intellectual Property: Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys for the 13th year in a row! Also well done to Hugh Goodfellow for his esteemed ranking as an Eminent Practitioner and Chris Hoggett’s new Band 1 ranking. To see a full list of our rankings in the Chambers and Partners 2025 guide, click below. #ChambersandPartners2025

Long-awaited updates to the EU design system are confirmed. ✏ On 10th October 2024 two legislative acts aimed at modernising the EU designs protection framework were formally adopted by the Council of the EU. Daisy Makin, Jonny Woodward and John Brunner explain the aims and implications of these acts in our latest article. #Designs #EU https://lnkd.in/e8cfH5kk

How is the biotechnology sector providing solutions to the challenges of global warming and sustainable living? 🌿 In the first article in the series Alex Fennell, PhD, Anaïs Cassaignau and Anna Leathley look at some key considerations for innovators building a patent portfolio in the ‘sustainable’ (or ‘green’) biotech sector. #Biotech #Sustainability #Patents https://lnkd.in/e6gam9y5

🌍 A recent decision by the Luxembourg Court of Appeal (CoA) marks the first time that the UPC’s CoA has considered an ex parte Preliminary Injunction (PI), and the first time any PI awarded by the UPC has been upheld through the courts of both First Instance and Appeal. Natasha Christian, Ben Chapman and John Brunner take a look at the decision in our latest article. #UPC