Our partners and attorneys are highly qualified and highly experienced to advise you in all areas of Intellectual Property law. We advise start-ups, SMEs, and multinational corporations and ensure that your inventions, brands and designs are expertly protected.
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Our Agriculture attorneys have been advising clients in this area for decades, and representing one client in particular for over eighty years.
We have experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in this field, and in defending/attacking granted European patents in opposition/appeal proceedings. Our experience in handling the latter contentious work has been very considerable over the years, with our attorneys having acquired a rare level of knowledge in defending and attacking Agriculture related patents/technology.
Some of the technologies we have advised on include:
Author: Dan Byrne Tigercat International Inc. (“Tigercat”) and Caterpillar Inc. (“Caterpillar”) have been in conflict in numerous countries around the world due to conflict arising between Tigercat’s name and Caterpillar Inc’s commonly used abbreviation “Cat”. Most recently, a dispute in the EU IPO has resulted in Tigercat losing an opposition for its application for… Read more »
There has been much talk about stopping use of internal combustion (IC) engines, but reports of the death of the engine may have been exaggerated. Cummins has produced conventional engines for many years starting with diesel and later including natural gas as fuel sources. As part of commitment to sustainability it is also looking to… Read more »
