7/11/2025 8:39:50 AM Some comfort at last - European Commission issues informal guidance endorsing Automotive Licensing Negotiation Group By Sophie Lawrance Katharine Head On 9 July 2025, the European Commission (EC) issued informal guidance (aka a ‘comfort letter’) that the creation of a Licensing...
7/8/2025 3:12:02 PM The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention is now in force in the UK By Ben Coleman Headline The Hague Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters...
7/7/2025 7:22:11 PM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Richard Pinckney Rachel Mumby Eden Winlow Nicholas Round +1 more... Show less This edition features updates from: the European Patent Office (EPO), the United States of America (USA), India and the Unified Patent...
7/2/2025 4:28:20 PM Ocean Clap Shipping Limited v Global Offshore Services BV - getting guarantees right: practical implications between “see to it” and “on demand” guarantees By Barney Bussell Wes Walker Ocean Clap Shipping Limited v Global Offshore Services BV [2025] EWHC 1591 (Comm) (26 June 2025). In finding for the shipowners on...
6/30/2025 8:49:15 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Gregory Bacon Richard Pinckney Florence Plisner Matthew Raynor Eden Winlow +2 more... Show less This edition features updates from: Japan, the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Canada, and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The...
6/23/2025 8:44:14 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By James Boon Nadine Bleach Lalya Camara Katie Cambrook Liz Cohen Sam Harvey Eden Winlow +4 more... Show less This edition features updates from: the European Patent Office (EPO), France, the European Union (EU), the United States of America (USA)...
6/16/2025 1:48:34 PM Change your expert, risk your case! By Sarah Hill Instructing expert witnesses in high value, technical disputes is an inevitability. Often multiple experts per party are required. Unless...
6/16/2025 9:10:24 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Andrew Bowler Alex Mocanu Claire Phipps-Jones Lucy Sewter +1 more... Show less This edition features updates from: the United States of America (USA), China, and the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The Irides Weekly...
6/9/2025 1:46:25 PM AI and copyright finally have their day in Court - Getty v Stability AI By Naomi Foale In what will be a landmark test of how artificial intelligence (AI) can be accommodated within legal frameworks designed for a pre-AI...
6/9/2025 8:41:00 AM Irides: Weekly patent litigation update By Cassie Blackburn Robert Burrows Lalya Camara Katie Cambrook Naomi Hazenberg Jonathan Ross +3 more... Show less This edition features updates from: Canada, the Netherlands, the Unified Patent Court (UPC), the United Kingdom (UK) and Singapore. The...
6/3/2025 3:06:58 PM Undisclosed principal entitled to enforce arbitral award By Wes Walker Robert Graham Summary In its decision in MSH Limited v HCS Limited [2025] EWHC 815 (Comm), the High Court considered and dismissed a jurisdictional...
6/2/2025 2:33:51 PM Bristows’ UPC experiences: 2 years in By Dominic Adair Gregory Bacon James Boon Andrew Bowler Robert Burrows Adrian Chew Liz Cohen Brian Cordery Charlie French Naomi Hazenberg Myles Jelf Rachel Mumby Claire Phipps-Jones Richard Pinckney +11 more... Show less Two years has passed since the Unified Patent Court opened its doors, with the promise of a one-stop shop for patent litigation relating...