9/11/2025 1:21:08 PM $100m Boost for Women’s Health Research By Anna Honey Gabriela Necula Melinda French Gates has announced a $100 million investment into women’s health through a partnership between Pivotal (the coalition...
9/11/2025 11:31:36 AM Changes to payroll tax responsibilities for employment businesses and umbrella companies By Farhad Shahidi Manon Rattle Introduction Umbrella companies are often used by employment businesses (for example, recruitment agencies) as a way of paying the...
9/10/2025 3:12:31 PM Consultation on changes to the UK designs framework: a condensed summary By Toby Headdon The government has recently launched a wide ranging consultation aimed at overhauling UK design law in order to modernise the system. The...
9/9/2025 4:12:17 PM Whose Shoes Are You Wearing? Post-Sale Confusion in Iconix v Dream Pairs By Marc Linsner Kyrana Hulstein Kyrana Hulstein and Marc Linsner, ‘Whose Shoes Are You Wearing? Post-Sale Confusion in Iconix v Dream Pairs: a summary of Iconix...
9/8/2025 9:45:37 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Andrew Bowler Charlie French Luke Norton Florence Plisner Nicholas Round +2 more... Show less This edition features updates from: The United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (USA) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The...
9/4/2025 8:57:18 AM Breaking Resistance – could AI revolutionise antibiotic discovery? By Claire Smith Stefano Incarbone Using generative AI to discover new antibiotics On 14 August 2025, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reported1 that a team...
9/4/2025 8:26:40 AM Injunctions: Taking the hackers to court By Marc Dautlich Freya Ollerearnshaw Imagine your organisation falls victim to a nightmare cyber extortion event. Hopefully you have a cyber response plan already in place,...
9/2/2025 8:33:23 AM Crash Course on the Arbitration Act 2025 By Freya Ollerearnshaw The Arbitration Act 2025 is now one month old. If you haven’t already got on top of this new legislation and how it may impact your...
9/1/2025 11:37:36 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Richard Pinckney Ewan MacAulay This edition features updates from: Brazil, Australia and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The Irides Weekly Update is our round-up of...
8/27/2025 12:25:35 PM The UPC PI Annual – issue 2 By Claire Phipps-Jones Hannah Rigby Cassie Blackburn It has been a little over two years since the UPC issued its first order for provisional measures on 22 June 2023. The first year saw six...
8/26/2025 9:47:15 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Liz Cohen Sam Harvey Luke Norton Matthew Raynor +1 more... Show less This edition features updates from: The United States of America (USA) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The Irides Weekly Update is...
8/22/2025 3:24:32 PM From Vessel 1 to Vessel 2: Navigating Confidentiality Across Arbitrations Involving Connected Clients By Wes Walker Yen Hoe The High Court handed down an important judgment on 8 May 2025 concerning arbitral confidentiality. The judgment should be of particular...