Mewburn Ellis

Today, we are launching our Sustainable Communities Special Report 2024 published each year as part of our Forward Community Programme, which examines the firm’s charitable giving, diversity and inclusion strategy and environmental initiatives as well as publishing carbon footprint and gender pay gap data. This new report highlights the steps taken, progress and amazing achievements the firm has made in the last year as well as setting out plans for the next. Including our commitment to making Mewburn Ellis a great place to work, advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. View here – https://hubs.la/Q02PPKLy0 #sustainability #community #charity #diversity #inclusion #mewburngreen

Drug companies traditionally focus on people who are ill – they look at what’s gone wrong and how to put it right. But Alchemab Therapeutics Ltd is doing the opposite. Alchemab studies people who are well, those who have overcome cancer, say, or resisted Alzheimer’s – to find out what has gone right. We speak to Dr Jacob Galson, Alchemab Vice-President of Technology, about how their artificial intelligence platform enables the identification of antibodies for some of the toughest jobs in pharma, from treating Alzheimer’s to beating cancer. https://hubs.la/Q02WjjDP0 #ArtificialIntelligence #Antibody #Bioinformatics #MewburnLifeSciences #MewburnBioinformatics

As gene therapies develop, so must the strategies for protecting the basic building blocks of these technologies. Anna Mudge and Laura Carney explain how such inventions can be protected. Spoiler: experimental data is key! Read more here - https://hubs.la/Q02W6FPc0 #AdvancedTherapeutics #MewburnAdvancedTherapeutics #LifeSciences #GeneTherapies

UPC Weekly at Mewburn Ellis This week Eliot Ward and Matthew Naylor explain how NanoString took down a Harvard/10x patent at the UPC - https://hubs.la/Q02V-1hs0 #UPCWeekly #MewburnUPCUpdate #MewburnUPC #UPC #UnifiedPatentCourt #litigation #UPCnugget

Since the EPO’s Rule of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) were revised in 2020, parties have faced a stricter regime for the amendment of their case in appeal proceedings. Rebecca Tollervey and Dr. Anja Koller explain what patent proprietors can do about this and explores whether a petition for review to the Enlarged Board of Appeal can ever provide a remedy - https://hubs.la/Q02VZhz30 European Patent Office #MewburnOppositions #Oppositions #EPO #RPBA #Proceedings

We speak to Jonathan Tudor, Investment Partner at Clean Growth Fund, about how venture capitalists view IP in the context of greentech and how startups can maximise their investability: https://hubs.la/Q02VGgPK0 #VentureCapital #Greentech #Startup #MewburnFirmwide #MewburnGreen

Yesterday, Jack Davies and Darena Slavova attended the Warwick Physics Careers Fair, at University of Warwick, representing Mewburn Ellis. They met lots of engaged and inquisitive students and took a variety of questions about life and training at Mewburn as well as providing detail on joining the profession after academia. If you want to find out more about our attorney training programme, click here - https://hubs.la/Q02VD8pT0 #MewburnCareers #MewburnEllis #IPCareers #IP #WarwickPhysicsCareersFair2024

Featured in WIPR - World IP Review, Matt Naylor shares advice for attorneys appearing before the UPC and reflects on the court's progress since its launch. From his proudest UPC achievement to the one thing he'd like to see change, read his full insights here: https://hubs.ly/Q02VsT6f0 #MewburnUPC #MewburnUPCUpdate #MewburnUPC #UPC #UnifiedPatentCourt

Meat alternative makers are applying for patents at increasing levels. Featuring in FoodNavigator, Nick Sutcliffe explains why securing IP remains vital in the alternative meat industry and some of the key facets of cultivated meat production that are most in need of patents: https://hubs.ly/Q02VsT0M0 #AlternativeMeat #CultivatedMeat #Patents #MewburnLifeSciences #MewburnFutureFood

UPC Weekly at Mewburn Ellis This week Matthew Naylor checks out a UPC case revoking a patent for added matter - https://hubs.la/Q02V3vXp0 #UPCWeekly #MewburnUPCUpdate #MewburnUPC #UPC #UnifiedPatentCourt #litigation #UPCnugget