Below are articles written by our partners and associates on a number of Intellectual Property related issues. Click on the articles to view or download a copy.

 Table accompanying article  "Trends in English patent litigation: are patents more likely to be upheld as valid than five years ago?", pending publication in Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice

November 2009 - Patenting Enantiomers  the House of Lord's Decision in Lundbeck v Generics and a comparison with the decision of the District Court of the Hague, published in Bio-Science Law Review, Volume 10 issue 3

June 2009 - A patentee-friendly decision?  Schinopharm case offers an insight into English courts' approach to obviousness, published in the June 2009 issue of Patent World

December 2008 - Using after-the-event insurance and conditional fee agreements in defending weak IP claims, published in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2009) Volume 4: 19-22

November 2008 - Generic competition and pharma patent strategies - a sequel, published in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2008 Volume 3: 799-800

June 2008 - On the other hand: is this the last word on patenting enantiomers? , published in Bio-Science Law Review, Volume 9 issue 4

April 2008 - Managing generic competition and patent strategies in the pharmaceutical industry, published in the April 2008 issue of Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

January 2008 - Playing the right game, published in the December 2007/January 2008 issue of Copyright World.

December 2007 - Patents and Enantiomers - Generics v Lundbeck, published in the December 2007 issue of Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice.

August 2007 - Reaching agreement Part 2: collaborative agreements in the pharmaceutical sector, published in the July/August 2007 issue of Pharmaceutical Executive Europe.

May 2007 - Close but no cigar... has sir Hugh Laddie's medal been won? published in the May 2007 issue of Trademark World.

May 2007 - Diddy do it? Diddy v Puffy and P. Diddy, published in the May 2007 issue of Trademark World.

May 2007 - Football Club emblems: a badge of affiliation or origin? published in the May 2007 issue of Trademark World.

May 2007 - How to save money in English IP litigation, published in the May 2007 issue of Managing Intellectual Property.

May 2007 - Reaching agreement Part 1: collaborative agreements in the pharmaceutical sector, published in the May 2007 issue of Pharmaceutical Executive Europe.

April 2007 - Harmony or fallacy: an international litigation comparison, published in the April 2007 issue of Trademark World.

March 2007 - What price fame? And just what makes a trademark well-known? Published in the March 2007 issue of Trademark World.

March 2007 - Arguing the same issues twice: Special Effects V L'Oreal, published in the March 2007 issue of Trademark World.

October 2006 - Oxaliplatin, a "basic" patent problem, published in the October 2006 issue of Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice.

September 2006 -  Stepping up: Ivax v Chugai analysed, published in the September 2006 issue of Patent World.

September 2006 - Patents & enantiomers: Court of Appeal reflects on Ranbaxy v Warner-Lambert, published in the September 2006 issue of Pharmaceutical Law Insight.

July/August 2006 - A practical guide to interim injunctions in the pharmaceuticals sector, published in the July/August 2006 issue of Managing Intellectual Property.

June 2006 - Halliburton v Smith: Can revoked patent be restored by consent of parties?published in the June 2006 issue of Patent World.

June 2006 - Registered targets, published in the 30 June 2006 issue of New Law Journal.

May 2006 - Apple’s Causes Célèbres, published in the May 2006 issue of Copyright World.

May 2006 - EU set to fight counterfeiting by creating a series of new criminal offences published in the May 2006 issue of Pharmaceutical Law insight.

May 2006 -  Taming the costs tiger - Court control of IP litigation costs, published by informa Law for the 2006 INTA conference.

April 2006 - Patent construction after Amgen, published in the April 2006 issue of Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

January 2006 - Patent and enantiomers: the court in Ranbaxy holds up a mirror to the law, published in the Dec 2005/January 2006 issue of Pharmaceutical Law Insight.

January 2006 - What’s in a name? Claude Ruiz Picasso and others v OHIM, published in European Intellectual Property Review, 2006, issue 28(6), pages 349-352.

January 2006 - Sending out a message: Jail sentence for P2P file sharer in Hong Kong, published in the Dec 2005/Jan 2006 issue of Copyright world.

November 2005 - Database right: BHB falls at the final hurdle (UK court of appeal) , published in the November 2005 issue of Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice.

September 2005 - IPC Media Ltd -v- Highbury SPL Publishing Ltd, published in European Intellectual Property Review, Vol 27, September 2005.

July/August 2005 - The case for IP audits, published in the July/August 2005 issue of Trademark World.