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• Category: Latest Insights
  • Big Mac Scaled Back
  • Black History Month: Spotlight on Pioneering Black Inventors
  • Trademarking in the Metaverse and NFTs – Are toys equivalent to virtual goods?
  • UK legal update – restrictions to specifications of trade marks
  • Absolutely Not Registrable: Summer 2024
  • Language Choices to Save Costs in Patent Filings
  • Trademarking in the Metaverse and NFTs – Vinicio opposition decision
  • The Paris 2024 Olympics: A Platform for Athletes’ Personal Brands
  • Third Party Observations: Understanding the Impact
  • The slow and continuing expansion of the Bolar Exemption
  • SPACE IP – The Importance Of Trade Marks And Branding
  • Circular Textiles Foundation: Driving Sustainable Fashion
  • Catalsys: Powering Sustainable Infrastructure with IP Protection
  • Do you need a Certification Mark or a Trade Mark?
  • Global WIIN: Empowering women inventors through IP
  • Tackling Plastic Pollution with Sustainable Innovations
  • Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Goals: Fuelling Global Progress
  • University Innovations – Who owns them?
  • Statutory Acquiescence: Court of Appeal’s decision in ICE Southampton v Intelligent Cleaning
  • How Patents Protect Innovations in Crewed Spaceflight
  • IP-Driven Clean Technology – National Vision for Engineering Biology
  • Comma Conundrum: Avoiding Pitfalls in Patent Claims
  • Diamond in Doubt? Court Says Dream Pairs Logo Infringes Umbro
  • Electric Rebirth: Rise of the Hummer EVs
  • Amazon and eBay spurious takedown requests – getting de-listed products re-listed
  • Trade Mark Enforcement in EU: Opting for a Preferred Jurisdiction
  • UK update on AI patentability – High Court overturns refusal for a trained Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
  • Absolutely Not Registrable: Logos and Emblems
  • ‘Whack-a-mole’ Dynamic Website Blocking Order
  • Where It’s Made Matters: The EU’s New Non-Agricultural GIs
  • From Locale to Label: Geographical Indications as Product Passports
  • CLE paper for IPO Annual Meeting – The luxury of consistent treatment of computer-implemented inventions
  • When is a Cat not a Cat? When it’s a Caterpillar. Or a Tigercat. Or is it?
  • IP and AI – UK Government publishes response to second consultation
  • The IP Space – Edition 3
  • USPTO launches new scheme for patent applications combating climate change
  • UK Battery Industry Growth and IP Challenges
  • Standard Essential Patents and the recent UKIPO consultation
  • Being Agnostic can be better for the Environment
  • Re-designing the system – the UK IPO consults on the future of UK design protection – all questions answered by the government*! *not
  • Music as a pharmaceutical alternative
  • The IP Space – Edition 2
  • IRONMAN records smashed
  • The IP Space
  • Event report: NPD Food and Drink Trends and Innovations conference
  • Litigation by STEALTH not permitted by Court of Appeal
  • Concrete and its devastating impact on the environment
  • Making Walking Greener with Intellectual Property
  • Our Evolving Relationship with Plastic
  • Ed Sheeran Granted Declaration of Non-Infringement in “Shape of You” copyright case
  • Freedom to Operate – Understanding the risks
  • Ongoing UK Involvement In The UPC
  • What do Six Nations Rugby Union referees have in common with the UK IPO Appointed Person?
  • Re-design the system – the UK IPO consults on the future of UK design protection
  • Absolutely Not Registrable
  • Prosecuting green patents around the world
  • European Commission launches feedback period on SEPs
  • Monster trade mark appeal runs out of energy
  • Appeals to the Appointed Person in the UK – a RARE case of success  relating to a missed counterstatement
  • AA Thornton reports on 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination
  • 3D marks – Shaping up for the New Year!
  • Red letter day for Wordle – what next following its sale to The New York Times?
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Identification of changes by Part, Chapter and Section
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Clarification of section on patentability of antibodies
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Data retrieval, formats and structures
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Update relating to games
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Computer simulation, design or modelling – following G1/19
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – New example assessment of invention including mathematical method steps
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – New example assessment of technical application of AI
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Helpful confirmation on patentability of mathematical methods
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Partial priorities
  • 2022 updates to EPO Guidelines for Examination – Amendments to avoid contradictions between claims and description
  • Trademarking in the Metaverse and Non-Fungible Tokens – virtually pointless?
  • Recent progress towards Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court
  • IPO’s consultation on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and Innovation
  • A practical update on patenting computer-implemented inventions – with a preview for 2022
  • Protecting Digital Medtech Innovation
  • EPO rejects appeals against refusal of applications naming an AI system as inventor
  • Pharmaceutical Trade Mark UK case law round-up December 2021
  • Patent Box: Inventing a way to reduce Corporation Tax
  • AAT Insights – Court of Appeal confirms requirement for human inventor in ‘DABUS’ case
  • Exhausted? You’re not alone…! What next for parallel imports after Brexit?
  • Post Brexit – the final countdown …
  • The Nagoya Protocol and the UK – are you compliant?
  • UK government faces challenges over future exhaustion of IP rights regime
  • Using IP to effectively combat online celebrity endorsement scams
  • Government R&D Tax Credits Consultation
  • A titanic appeal sunk by an ice cube; miniscule use supports an EU registration and UK common law rights
  • UK AFA – new procedure for recording IP rights with UK customs authorities
  • April AI Report 2021 – Copyright
  • April AI Report 2021 – Designs
  • April AI Report 2021 – Trade marks
  • G1/21 – EPO continues oral proceedings by videoconference in examination and opposition
  • UK Government ‘call for views on AI & IP’ response – Patents
  • G1/19 decision – Patenting Computer Simulation in Europe
  • Appeals to the Appointed Person in the UK – the unappealing truth (part 3)
  • An assignment in gross, or not?  What happened to the goodwill?
  • Lack of enablement in Amgen v Sanofi and Regeneron
  • What’s cooking? Tefal gets red light for the ‘red spot’
  • Patenting in the Pandemic
  • UKIPO “Green Channel” – can the patent system encourage more innovation in green technologies?
  • UK IPO unveils new scheme for protecting Geographical Indications in the UK
  • AI and IP – A report on CIPA’s Computer Technology Committee recommendations on AI and IP
  • Creating a Corona Vaccine – how IP rights may play a part in its protection
  • First use of STEALTH mark prevails again
  • Trade mark rights IN THE RED!
  • UK Intellectual Property Office – new rules soon on address for service
  • It’s the Most Wonderful Mark of the Year: legal protection and use of seasonal slogan marks  
  • Appeals to the Appointed Person in the UK – the unappealing truth
  • Defender or Pretender? 
  • BioScience Today – Is your IP Strategy fit for purpose?
  • How do you win the battle against online trade mark infringement?
  • Access to Intellectual Property (IP) Rights in a Time of Emergency – Patent Pools and Beyond
  • Artificial Intelligence: Patentability and Inventorship in Europe
  • WTR Anti-counterfeiting: A Global Guide 2020
  • Videoconferencing tips for EPO success
  • The Court of Appeal in Mexichem confirms the utility of ‘Arrow’ declarations is highly fact specific
  • Diversification of transport technology backed by UK Government funding
  • WORLD IP DAY 2020: “INNOVATE FOR A GREEN FUTURE” – THREE GREEN TECH COMPANIES SPEAK TO AA THORNTON ABOUT THE ROLE IP HAS PLAYED IN MAKING THEIR BUSINESS A SUCCESS
  • Returning to the Fold – the New Direction in Mobile Phone Designs
  • THREE GREEN TECH COMPANIES SPEAK TO AA THORNTON ABOUT WHY THEY HAVE CHOSEN THE SUSTAINABLE PATH
  • Innovation vs. Standardisation – Seeing the Light?
  • Jet Suits – Making Your Commute A Breeze?
  • Appeals to the Appointed Person in the UK – the unappealing truth
  • Legal update – UK IPO COVID-19 response
  • Playing detective with patent databases
  • Artificial Intelligence – Our March 2020 report
  • Bosch develops rapid test for COVID-19
  • Red Bull takes infringement matter by the horns
  • F1 teams join fight against COVID-19
  • The benefits of Artificial Intelligence in the field of IP
  • The challenges of Artificial Intelligence in the field of IP
  • Artificial Intelligence and Trade Marks
  • AA Thornton Go Electric with Ford
  • BioScience Today article: Shanks v Unilever – An opening of the claim floodgates?
  • Will Mercedes’ steering innovation send their drivers round the bend?
  • Legal update – Sky v Skykick a closer analysis
  • Kicking up a storm – a breakdown of Nike’s ground-breaking and controversial range of running shoes
  • Patenting AI and computer simulation – an interview with Partner Mike Jennings
  • EU Copyright Directive will not be implemented in UK
  • WTR article summary – Tackling the stigma of disability in IP.
  • Running an IP dispute – Podcast with LexisPSL
  • First use of STEALTH mark prevails
  • AAT Insights – Are some applicants gaming the system?
  • ROCK CITY (Opposition), UK IPO, 1st July 2019
  •  Website blocking injunction Nintendo v Sky UK Ltd
  • House Marks: the Big Boys on the Block – a European perspective
  • A look back at 3DMedLive 2019
  • News in brief from the pharma and medical devices sectors – Summer 2019 trade mark decisions from the UK and EU
  • EUIPO cancels MasterCard registrations: there are some things even MasterCard can’t buy
  • Brexit update – A summary of the UK’s arrangements for EU IP rights if Brexit takes effect on 31 October
  • Registered designs and the grace period in the EU
  • A storm in a snow globe
  • CJEU clips Red Bull’s wings
  • New Patent Rules in Canada
  • Revision of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal
  • Let’s cut to the CHEESE – a banquet of IP updates
  • IC what you did there…
  • World Intellectual Property Day 2019 – Innovation in Sports
  • AAT Insights – Electric car innovation in patents
  • Jet suit patent granted…but what’s new?
  • Patent protection of medical devices
  • AA Thornton attends the Wearable Technology Show 2019
  • ‘Being flexible’ by Stuart Greenwood
  • Brexit update: EU Trade Marks
  • Google Get Lucky
  • East Anglia Business Magazine: The Importance of Intellectual Property
  • Brexit update – January 2019
  • Brexit update – December 2018
  • RACETECH: The problem of counterfeiting in Motorsport
  • BioScience Today – Patenting aerospace medicines
  • Landmark UK Supreme Court Judgment in Warner Lambert v Generics (Mylan) & Actavis (Pregabalin / Lyrica)
  • Mike Jennings attends EPO’s AI Conference
  • The Internet of Things – IoT
  • Protection for cannabis-based IP
  • J. Choo Limited v Liangliang Ren
  • EU: Falsified Medicines Directive: Implications for parallel importers and of Brexit
  • WIPO Magazine has announced the launch of a new tool linking patents and drugs: Pat-INFORMED
  • “It’s immoral!” – Pitfalls of failing to register your trademarks; increased risks in China
  • Brexit: Considerations for European Union Trade Marks and Registered Community Designs
  • Preparations for AI patenting in Europe
  • UK and the UPC: What Will Happen Post-Brexit?
  • Assessment of “plausibility” requirement from the EPO perspective
  • Transliterations
  • Anti-counterfeiting 2018 – A Global Guide
  • Is it true that if you don’t use it you lose it?
  • The Carbon Car
  • CRISPR: the gene editing tool and related patents
  • Relaxing the tension between Publishing and Patenting: Practical Hints and Tips – Part two
  • Relaxing the tension between Publishing and Patenting: The Legal Basis for Tension – Part One
  • The use of silk in medical devices
  • “Working Statements” at the Indian Patent Office – a recent petition may provide some much needed guidance
  • Mighty MasSpec Pen
  • IP helps Koenigsegg keep engine development ticking over
  • A picture of health – how Bosch is making Hospitals smarter
  • Michelin’s X is king
  • IP Audits – What are they, and why should you have one?
  • Current summary of the UK Patent Box regime
  • AA Thornton’s guide to Government Grants, Loans and Tax Relief for Innovative SMEs and Start-ups
  • CJEU confirms the territorial scope of a pan-European injunction in relation to Registered Community Designs
  • The return of the doctrine equivalents – a WIPR article by Geoff Hussey & Varuni Paranavitane
  • A patent history of atrial septal defect closure devices
  • The Madrid Union welcomes its 100th member as Indonesia joins the International Trade Mark System
  • EU – trade mark legislation changes – part 2
  • UK-China IP Symposium highlights importance of innovation
  • Partner Ian Gill gives a talk on ‘Practical Advice for the Creative Industries’
  • The pitfalls of online shopping
  • FDA clears adherence monitoring inhalation device
  • Microsoft and Halliburton collaborate to digitally transform the oil and gas industry
  • Standards – what can the IP sector learn from the automotive industry?
  • Hybrid Vehicles – a simple guide
  • Bosch driving car safety revolution – #STOPTHECRASH
  • Turning a corner – overcoming a bad biking habit
  • Webmarking registered designs
  • New European Medical Devices Regulations – Improving standards for Patients
  • English courts permit the grant of ‘Arrow’ declarations in the interest of providing commercial certainty
  • Reversing my view of Parking Assist
  • European patents no longer available for plants and animals obtained exclusively by means of an essentially biological process
  • Actavis v Eli Lilly: UK Supreme Court reformulates patent infringement test
  • Change of Rules 27 and 28 regarding patentability of plants and animals at the EPO
  • Reforms to the UK legislation relating to Unjustified Threats actions
  • Trade Mark licences in Saudi Arabia – You need to record them!
  • For those about to rock at Glastonbury Festival…
  • The KitKat case: To protect or not to protect: The fine lines
  • Wrong number for Napp Pharmaceuticals in UK Buprenorphine infringement cases
  • Then & Now – Brexit
  • Paclitaxel SPC bound to fail
  • February Focus on China
  • Jimmy Choo stomps on cybersquatting
  • February Focus on China
  • Cupid’s arrow hits the mark: eHarmony succeed in opposing registration of “matchedharmony”
  • The UK is leaving the European Union…so what now for IP rights in Europe?
  • February Focus on China
  • ‘A.A. Thornton: the best of both worlds’ an article by Geoff Hussey, Partner
  • Co-existence of Trade Marks: European and the UK
  • Genuine use in the EU
  • Proposed reforms to the UK legislation relating to Unjustified Threats actions
  • UKIPO publishes registered designs guidance
  • EU Trade Secrets Directive
  • Changes to the UK Patent Box – 30 June deadline
  • An ethical victory at the EPO in the coffee war
  • UK High Court finds patent for Metoject® technology invalid on the ground of obviousness
  • Can you keep up with the PACE?
  • Effects on IP rights should the UK exit from the European Union
  • UPC opt-out fee abolished
  • An economy of ideas
  • New year, New laws
  • Actavis v Eli Lilly
  • To protect or not to protect: Maybe!
  • Rio Olympic Games brand guidelines
  • Proposed changes to UK Patent Box
  • Validation of European Patents in Moldova
  • To protect or not to protect, that is the question!
  • Webmarking of Registered Designs
  • UK IPO issues Practice Amendment Notice (1/15)
  • Adjusted proposals for Unitary Patent fees considered by Select Committee
  • The EPO clear things up
  • New gTLD .sucks for brand owners…
  • What will be the cost of obtaining Unitary Patent protection?
  • Design Opinions Service
  • An opinion on Opinions
  • Patenting will significantly reduce tax burden for many UK companies
  • Swiss claims – Full of holes?
  • Continuing expansion of the Patent Prosecution Highway
  • Cost savings now available, following Norway’s accession to the London Agreement
  • A victory for Rihanna in the use of her image
  • Anti-counterfeiting measures at the EU border – Applications for action by EU Customs
  • Validation of European Patents in Morocco
  • USPTO publishes guidance on patent eligibility
  • ‘Fast Track’ processing of community trade mark applications
  • Software-controlled “circumvention” of a problem fails to impress UK Court of Appeal
  • For your ‘Must Do’ list – record your Design development history
  • A new defence to patent infringement in the UK
  • Foreign words as trade marks in Europe and UK
  • A victory for rights holders over ISPs in obtaining blocking orders
  • Domain name complaints under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)
  • The CTM: then and now, and why national trade mark registrations are still important
  • Changes to UK Design Law
  • Eli Lilly v Human Genome Sciences Ltd
  • Webmarking of patented products
  • Amendments to PCT regulations
  • Changes to New Zealand patent law
  • Shanks v Unilever Plc & Others
  • Retail store layout can be registered as a Trade Mark in Europe
  • European patent validation agreement signed with Tunisia
  • Medical use claims in Europe – does the format of the claim matter?
  • .uk domain names launch
  • China – are your trade marks protected?
  • Denmark to ratify the Unified Patent Court agreement
  • French Polynesia – changes to the system for Trade Mark protection
  • UK High Court not receptive to Herceptin dosage regime
  • Does intellectual property law strengthen and reward innovation?
  • Design Protection – black and white, or a grey area?
  • Update: GPPH Pilot Scheme
  • EPO announces new divisional application fees
  • GPPH Pilot Scheme
• Category: News
  • AA Thornton joins forces with Venner Shipley
  • Sky v Skykick: Supreme Court Upholds Bad Faith Finding Against Sky
  • Ian Gill Recognised as Band 1 UK Trade Mark Attorney by Chambers and Partners 2024
  • AA Thornton Recognised in Managing IP’s 2024 Edition of IP STARS
  • AA Thornton recognised for Client Satisfaction in Legal 500
  • Dr Craig Turner and Ian Gill recognised in Who’s Who Legal 2024
  • Mike Jennings recognised in World’s Leading IP Strategists 2024 – IAM Strategy 300
  • AA Thornton – ‘IP Detective’ Workshop
  • AA Thornton Recognised in Financial Times Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2024
  • EU Court Ruling: McDonald’s BIG MAC Trade Mark Partially Revoked
  • EU Design Law Reforms: New Changes to Take Effect in 2024
  • AA Thornton IP LLP Shortlisted in Managing IP Awards 2024
  • Game, Set and Price-Match – Court of Appeal rules in the Lidl v Tesco case
  • Mike Jennings takes on new roles in SACEPO for 2024-2026 term
  • EPO Introduces New Fee Reduction Scheme for “Micro-Entities”
  • Geoff Hussey recognised as Stand-Out Lawyer 2024
  • Ian Gill recognised again in WTR 1000
  • Recommended in the 2024 JUVE Patent UK rankings
  • Mike Jennings: Global Leader in IAM Strategy 300 2024
  • A Pilot for Costs-Capping in Patents Cases
  • DABUS Case: UK Supreme Court Affirms Human Inventor Requirement
  • UK’s 2030 Vision: Energy Transition with a New Battery Strategy
  • Clarity from EPO on Priority Entitlement in Patent Proceedings
  • Mike Jennings recognised in IAM Strategy 300
  • EPO’s “10-day rule” to be abandoned effective from 1st November 2023
  • AA Thornton’s IP Experts recognised in Who’s Who Legal 2023
  • Celebrating Success: AA Thornton Recognised for Patent Expertise
  • AA Thornton listed in Financial Times Europe’s leading patent law firms 2023
  • AA Thornton Shortlisted for MIP Awards
  • Trademarking in the Metaverse: From coined phrase to a descriptive word, a 30-year decline of distinctiveness
  • Why are there so few women inventors?
  • UK Trademarking in the Metaverse: NFTs for Goods and Services
  • Vodafone was ‘the author of its own misfortune’ – Vodafone v IPCom
  • UK Joins CPTPP and Secures Exemption from Grace Period Requirement
  • Iceland (country) v Iceland (supermarket) – another chapter of the trade mark saga closed
  • McLaren triples up and Ford brings it home
  • Electric Avenue – is this the road ahead?
  • McDonald’s are Lovin’ It with EUIPO Board of Appeal Decision Win
  • Seminar: Opportunities for patenting AI and other computer-related inventions
  • UPC start date confirmed as 1 June 2023
  • Inventions born out of the world’s most ambitious experiments
  • Trademarking in the Metaverse and NFTs – the MetaBirkin decision
  • TPN 1/2023: New Tribunal Practice Notice relating to costs in UKIPO Tribunal proceedings
  • M&S Gin Win
  • Excess Claims Fees Around the World
  • Absolutely Not Registerable Roundup- January 2023
  • Why your International trade marks and designs designating the UK are at risk if you do not appoint a UK address for service
  • What should you keep in mind when trying to protect non-traditional marks in the fashion industry?
  • Can Bubbles Clean Rivers?
  • Why is Diligent Due Diligence Important?
  • AA Thornton IP LLP Partners receive additional awards
  • ChatGPT – the AI powered chatbot
  • Sustainable innovations in cosmetics packaging
  • Has the UK IPO been incorrectly applying the address for service rules in relation to International Registrations? Find out what Geoffrey Hobbs QC, sitting as the Appointed Person, thinks and what this might mean for overseas trade mark holders and their attorneys.
  • UK IPO Consultation on its plans to modernise – the interesting questions
  • Joint Webinar for AIPLA and CIPA 10 January 2023
  • Important Change to “Ten Day Rule” of the EPC
  • EPO announce Video Conference as default format of Oral Proceedings
  • Trademarking in the Metaverse and Non-Fungible Tokens – virtually pointless? Follow up
  • Cambridge Engineers Crack Cement Conundrum
  • Ironman? Superman – PART 3
  • She-Hulk in Trade Mark Trouble
  • UKIPO issues guidance on protecting AI innovations
  • Iceland (country) v Iceland (supermarket) – the trade mark saga continues
  • Could a New High Revving Rotary Engine Really Take Off?
  • Ironman? Superman – PART 2
  • Unjustified threats
  • High Court clarifies position on the registrability of colour “per se” trade marks
  • WIPO Green: A forum for green technology
  • This time next year we’ll be millionaires? … Only Fools and Horses ruling establishes copyright in characters.
  • AA Thornton Partners receive additional awards
  • Amendments to the Patent Description: To what extent?
  • EPO releases findings of survey on grace period for patents
  • Even if your name is as famous as Ronaldinho, the UK IPO cannot raise ex officio bad faith objections
  • The Agri-Tech Centres and their contribution to the UK’s net-zero initiative
  • A.A. Thornton & Co conversion to AA Thornton IP LLP
  • EPO 2022 fee increases
  • AA Thornton welcomes its first Non-Executive Director
  • A practical update on patenting computer implemented inventions with a preview for 2022
  • The Earthshot Prize – AA Thornton proud to be involved
  • AA Thornton share delight with Legal 500 2022 rankings
  • Innovate UK Smart Grants – Competition Opens!
  • Post Brexit – the final countdown
  • AA Thornton Partners pledge to support diversity and inclusion with IP Inclusive
  • The Financial Times – ‘Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms’ – 2021
  • Lexology – Getting the deal through (GTDT) – Patent & Trade Mark Chapters
  • Careers in Ideas: Virtual work insight days 2021
  • Antibodies – EPO user consultation on new EPO guidelines
  • AA Thornton ranked in WTR 1000 2021
  • Partner Mike Jennings is reappointed to SACEPO
  • AA Thornton support Admiral Group in successful sale of the Penguin Portals and Preminen businesses
  • UK IPO Practice Note – Impact of the end of the Brexit Transition Period on Tribunal Proceedings
  • Brexit burn-out for the EUIPO Torpedo
  • Call for industry views on AI and IP and Videoconference
  • Careers in Ideas – Senior leaders’ diversity think tank
  • AA Thornton ranked again as a Tier 1 firm by The Legal 500 2021
  • Diversity & Inclusion: BAME representation in IP Round Table
  • AA Thornton change of address
  • AA Thornton promotes Sarah Neil to Senior Associate
  • Financial Times names AA Thornton one of Europe’s leading Patent Law Firm’s 2020
  • Third judgment in Sky v SkyKick –
    Louise Foster and Sarah Darby provide some take-away thoughts
  • COVID-19 hub
  • EPO announce fee increases, effective from 1 April 2020
  • AA Thornton Partners ranked in the World Trade Mark Review 2020
  • Skykick CJEU judgement brief summary
  • CIPA Event: Mike Jennings to educate on: ‘subject matter eligibility for patent protection in Europe and US’
  • Brexit update: The dawn of a new era – Brexit becomes a reality
  • AA Thornton welcomes Formalities Officer from the EPOs placement programme ‘Praktika Extern’
  • Partner Ian Gill celebrates 25 years at AA Thornton
  • AA Thornton are ranked in the Legal 500 2020
  • Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle and Connected Automated Mobility 2019
  • AA Thornton welcome two new Partners
  • AA Thornton takes part in 2019 Standard Chartered City Race
  • Promoting a career in ideas
  • TOC issue brand protection guidelines in relation to the 32nd Olympics in Tokyo 2020
  • The New SPC Manufacturing Waiver Regulation
  • Welcome Changes to Chinese Trade Mark Legislation regarding bad faith
  • Biosimilars and patents
  • IACC Annual Spring Conference 2019 and 40th Anniversary
  • INTA’s 141st Annual Meeting – Boston 2019
  • AAT Insights – The importance of IP for small businesses
  • World Intellectual Property Day 2019- Innovation in Sports- Hiplok speak to AA Thornton
  • Brexit update – 5 April 2019
  • Adrian Bennett named new Partnership Chair at AA Thornton
  • Canada joins the international trade mark system (Madrid System)
  • Legal update: Eli Lilly v Genentech – Warner-Lambert
  • Brexit update – 15 March 2019
  • AA Thornton takes part in unconscious bias training
  • Mike Jennings to participate in CIPA’s US roadshows in April
  • AA Thornton’s letter of recommendation to the EPO 2019
  • AA Thornton Partners recommended in the World Trademark Review 2019
  • Julie Barrett-Major speaks at Queen Mary University
  • AA Thornton attends the ABHI Parliamentary Reception at Westminster
  • An update on Supplementary Protection Certificates in Europe
  • The year in review: AA Thornton on Battery Technology
  • EUIPO’s Board of Appeal pharmaceutical decision
  • IP Inclusive Week at AA Thornton
  • Mike Jennings Chairs AI patenting panel at CIPA’s Computers and IP Conference
  • Patenting computer-implemented inventions in the era of AI
  • AA Thornton to attend New Delhi events this November
  • AA Thornton ranked with ‘Leading Firm’ status in the Legal 500 2019
  • PTMG Autumn Conference 2018
  • In-cosmetics Formulations Summit – London 2018
  • Update: 27 September 2018 – Brexit: EU Trade Marks and Community Designs, including if there is ‘no deal’
  • Partner promotions at AA Thornton
  • Standard Chartered Great City Race 2018
  • Motorsport Industry Association Summer Reception
  • Raytheon Company awarded milestone US Patent No.10,000,000
  • Speaking at the in-cosmetics Korea exhibition, Seoul
  • Swiss Biotech Day 2018
  • Careers in Ideas launch event
  • 140th Annual Meeting – International Trade Mark Association
  • EPO announce fee reductions
  • UK ratifies UPC agreement
  • World Intellectual Property Day 2018
  • Crocs loses its bite…
  • Launch of TREx service
  • European Union Trade Marks and Community Designs, post-Brexit
  • Hague Agreement ratification designed to offer some post-Brexit certainty
  • CPhI’s 7th Annual Pharma IPR Conference in Mumbai, India
  • Corporate to Classroom
  • UK ready to ratify the UP / UPC package
  • EPO & CIPA: no impact of Brexit on UK membership of EPO
  • PTMG Spring Conference
  • 12th World Congress on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Innovations in Pharma Industry
  • AA Thornton partners recommended in the World Trademark Review 1000 2018
  • EPO extends fast-track programmes
  • ABHI Parliamentary Reception
  • UKIPO confirm changes to fees
  • Bosch transforMOTION showcases vision of the future
  • Bosch and Audi breathe new life into synthetic fuels
  • BMW vs Technosport
  • Testing times for TESTAROSSA
  • 1 Year anniversary of the Royal Charter for the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
  • Expected reduction of EPO fees
  • The ‘Bell’ report
  • AIPPI 2017- Partner Mike Jennings reports
  • EPO Guidelines for Examination 2017
  • CPA Global in the press
  • UKIPO announce changes to fees
  • AA Thornton ranked with ‘Leading Firm’ status in the Legal 500 2017
  • Continental: reinventing the wheel
  • Speaking at the AIPPI 2017 – World Congress
  • AA Thornton again takes part in the Praktika Extern programme
  • Speaking at the in-cosmetics formulation summit
  • Thailand joins the International Trade Mark System  
  • Standard Chartered Great City Race 2017
  • Discussing Europe-wide preparation for the Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • Inspiring youngsters to work in IP
  • Partner Craig Turner successfully defends Lycored’s European patent
  • Excellent discussions with industry at the Pat-Tech Exchange
  • INTA is over for another year..
  • Representatives of our Automotive group attend the London Motor Show
  • AA Thornton partners recommended in the World Trademark Review 2017
  • AA Thornton welcome associate Varuni Paranavitane
  • CITMA Spring Conference 2017
  • AA Thornton ranked with ‘Top Tier’ & ‘Leading Firm’ status in the Legal 500 2016
  • Who’s Who Legal: Patents 2016 Nominations
  • The UK is leaving the European Union…so what now for IP Rights in Europe?
  • AA Thornton welcome Geoff Hussey
  • AA Thornton recommended in the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2016
  • Legal 500 UK 2015 – the results are in…
  • AA Thornton announce promotions for Nikesh Patel and Louise Foster
  • AA Thornton sponsor record-breaking children’s charity event
  • Vanessa Lawrence is recommended in the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2015
  • Top Tier – Legal 500 UK 2014
  • AA Thornton help set fundraising record of $2.4 million
  • AA Thornton maintains “Leading Firm” status in the Legal 500 UK
  • AA Thornton again takes part in the Praktika Extern programme
  • Dr Marianne Privett promoted to Principal Patent Attorney
  • Fundraising for Cancer Research UK in the RideLondon 100
  • Racing to raise money in the Great City 5k
  • INTA 138th Annual Meeting
  • IACC 2016 Annual Spring Conference
  • World Nano Summit 2016 @ Business Rocks
  • Intellectual Property & Innovation Summit 2016
  • 26th International Global IP ConfEx
  • Intellectual Property: Risk, Ownership & Value
  • PTMG 91st Conference
  • IP Owners Association 43rd Annual Meeting
  • Global Pharma IP Forum
  • Northamptonshire Chamber Business Exhibition
  • RSC Emerging Technologies Showcase
  • The Toy Trust Big Thames Challenge
  • INTA 137th Annual Meeting
  • IACC Annual Spring Conference
  • FICPI World Congress 2015
  • MIP International Patent Forum
  • The World Nano Summit 2015

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• UK Address for Service

Attorneys / Staff

• Adrian Bennett
• Alex Bone
• Fergus Brown
• Daniel Byrne
• Pablo Carlos Infante Cabello
• Sarah Darby
• Dr. Simon Davies
• Louise Foster
• Isabel Palma García
• Ian Gill
• Martin Hedges
• Geoff Hussey
• Mike Jennings
• Victoria Jones
• Peter Lyons
• Sarah Neil
• Lucy O'Brien
• Devyani Patel
• Nikesh Patel
• Leonita Paulraj
• Lucy Pope
• Suzanne Power
• Dr Marianne Privett
• Nick South
• Dr Craig Turner
• Vince Bixby
• Tracy Bragg
• Francesca Suer
• Lisa Joseph
• Christina Frame
• Sam Exton
• Graham Horsham