US firm Reed Smith has hired Marianne Schaffner from Dentons as partner in its Paris office. This comes amid a push by the firm to expand its European ...
Mathys & Squire is to open its third office on the European continent in Munich. The British firm recruited a team of four patent attorneys from Herzo ...
The European Patent Office has formulated a new vision for the next five years. A new EPO strategy was adopted by the office's 38 member states yester ...
The London office of Gowling WLG has hired two Norton Rose Fulbright partners for its patent team. Huw Evans joined the firm in June, with Jonathan Ba ...
EIP has bolstered its patent litigation group with the hire of a new partner. Kathleen Fox Murphy joins the firm from UK-based law firm Browne Jacobse ...
The App Association and the Fair Standards Alliance (FSA), in conjunction with the Deutsches Institut für Normung, has published a set of guidelines o ...
France Brevets has granted its first near field communication (NFC) licence outside the mobile phone industry. Japanese optical product manufacturer C ...
Vienna-based law firm Binder Grösswang is bolstering its intellectual property and IT practice with the addition of Michael Horak. He leaves IP boutiq ...
After seven years, Siemens has climbed to the top of patent applicants at the European Patent Office. Beat Weibel, chief IP counsel of Siemens, talks ...
Before his appointment as a Supreme Court judge, David Kitchin presided over the global licence decided in the Unwired Planet vs. Huawei case at the C ...
Women working in intellectual property still expect a trade off between building a family and career success, according to a global survey by World In ...
Yann Dietrich has left patent holding France Brevets to join the in-house team at Atos as head of IP strategy and development. Atos is a listed French ...
UK patent and trademark attorney firm Haseltine Lake has merged with Leeds-based Kempner & Partners. New firm, Haseltine Lake Kempner, has 34 partners ...
The Austrian government has announced a twofold reform for the patent attorney community. Training and qualifications are to be restructured and the r ...
The Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office has released its annual report for 2018. According to the report, structural and personnel changes ...
