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Partner Darren Smyth will be a speaker at the 18th annual CIPA Congress in a session entitled ‘Taking a Broad View of Designs’.The 2013 CIPA Congress takes place on 3-4 October at the Lancaster...

Three trainee patent attorneys have joined EIP to strengthen the team.Felix Hall is a specialist in the chemical and physics sectors, and is based at the EIP office in Cardiff.

EIP has been given a Tier 1 ranking by the Legal 500.The 2013 edition of the highly-respected guide lists EIP among the top 12 firms of patent attorneys in the UK, and the number one firm in Bath,...

EIP have hired Marcus Cavalier and Nick Transier as senior associates.Marcus is a patent attorney with more than 20 years of experience in IP.

A team from EIP will be tackling the London-Brighton cycle ride in aid of the charity Beanstalk, which supports primary school children with their reading.

EIP has expanded the team at its San Diego, California office with the hire of experienced attorney Cynthia Arko.Cynthia is a Registered U.S. Patent Attorney and joined EIP on 14 August from TechLaw...

EIP has recently run a series of activities in schools promoting Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering (STEM).The activities involved secondary school pupils at Ralph Allen School in Bath on 10...

Gary Moss, head of EIP Legal, was a guest speaker at the 2013 High Technology Protection Summit held at the University of Washington.The conference was organised by the Center for Advanced Study &...

Partner Darren Smyth has been featured as a ‘Face of Chemistry’ in a video by the Royal Society of Chemistry.IP solicitor Robert Lundie Smith and associate Fergus Tyrrell are also interviewed in a...

EIP celebrated winning the 2013 Queen’s Award for Enterprise yesterday – with a visit to Buckingham Palace.Partners Jerome Spaargaren and Heather McCann met the Queen at a reception held at...

Associates Sam Town and Stephen Scott have qualified as European Patent Attorneys after passing the European Qualifying Examinations.Sam scored the highest marks awarded to any of the candidates...

The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice has published an article by Andrew Sharples and Carissa Kendall-Palmer about the Court of Appeal’s decision in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc v...

In a guest post for the Spicy IP blog, partner Gary Moss discusses the practice of ‘reverse payments’, where a pharmaceutical company, which owns a patent, pays off a generic competitor to not enter...

EIP will host a One Nucleus BioWednesday seminar entitled ‘Managing IP Litigation on a Budget’.The event takes place at EIP’s London office on 3 July from 6pm and registration is open to all members...

In an opinion article for Chemistry World, Darren Smyth joins five other international experts on the subject in giving his view on whether compulsory licences for patent-protected drugs are a...