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There is no ‘ideal’ time for filing a patent application. A trade-off must be made between filing the ‘perfect’ patent application with data that exhaustively cover all possible embodiments falling within the scope of an ideal broad claim, and the need to secure legal certainty by obtaining a filing date. So, what happens if you need to file your application, but you don’t have time to obtain all the required data before the filing date?

The pictures on Instagram show bowls of fresh-looking caprese salad, with hunks of mozzarella, green basil, and vibrant tomatoes; red, yellow, and vivid purple. One of these tomatoes is not like the others. The purple tomato, from Norfolk Healthy Produce, gets its deep purple colour from high levels of anthocyanins in the fruit; the same chemicals are responsible for the lustrous hues of purple aubergines and blueberries.

Over the last 30 years, the Premier League has become one of the biggest and most lucrative sports leagues in the world; putting the English game at the top of the football pyramid. One large driver of this success is the Premier League’s stance on innovation, and how maintaining an innovative attitude towards adoption of new technologies, broadcasting strategies and global marketing has taken the league from strength to strength.

So-called second medical use claims are a type of patent claim in the field of medicine. These claims are typically used to protect the use of a known substance or compound for a new and specific medical purpose. 

Quebec is Canada’s French speaking province, and as a general rule, products, commercial documents as well as public signs and commercial advertising in Quebec must abide by the Charter of the French Language (the “Charter”). At the administrative level, the Charter is enforced by the Office québécois de la langue française (the “OQLF”).

One morning during my undergraduate chemistry course I arrived at the organic chemistry teaching laboratory to be informed that today we would be synthesising N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide, more commonly known as DEET, which is the most widely used active ingredient in commercial insect repellents. At the time, the significance of what I was making (or trying to make!) was lost on me.

In the latest Dead Cat Live Cat interview with Quantum specialists, host Phil Merchant, Principal at Marks & Clerk, interviews guest Vishal Shete, Managing Director at Terra Quantum UK.

The EU has introduced new legislation on AI, the EU AI Act, which lays the foundation for the regulation of, and responsible development of, AI across all industries within the EU.

Earlier this year the Indian Patent Office updated a number of rules to “address some of the major pain points experienced by the patent applicants in Indian patent procedure”. These include everyone’s favourite procedural requirements: filing annual working statements and periodically submitting the details and prosecution documents issued on corresponding foreign patent applications. Some of the key changes are summarised below.