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  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special Report
    Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms

    The top firms for 2022 revealed. Plus: Russia’s patents grab; China flexes muscle across borders; nations urged to waive vaccine IP; green patents slow despite net zero goals; and the artificial intelligence debate

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Green patents slow as net zero deadlines edge closer

    Intellectual property offices globally are exploring how they can help the development of low-carbon technologies

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Inability to patent AI creations could hit business investment

    Companies could be incentivised to keep inventions as trade secrets

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Chinese courts flex intellectual property muscle across borders

    Anti-suit injunctions in telecom cases reflect growing assertiveness by rising superpower

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Magic Circle firms poach IP lawyers from US peers

    Partners offered above-the-odds pay and multiyear salary guarantees

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Nations urged to waive vaccine patents while drugmakers say rules are fair

    Only 1 per cent of the 10bn jabs delivered so far have been in low-income countries

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Russian patents grab deemed ‘act of war’

    Some lawyers also fear trademarks, copyright and even physical property could be next

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2022

    Clients and peers feed into research to create the latest listing of the continent’s top intellectual property firms

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Ukraine medicine IP waiver becomes ‘matter of life or death’

    Lawyer Olga Gurgula drafted a law to enable the local production of generic drugs for civilians and the military

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    Could ‘testimonial discrepancies’ prove a powerful strategy for litigators?

    Palantir dispute playing out in German courts opens the door to using US evidence in European cases

  • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
    Special ReportEurope’s Leading Patent Law Firms
    How Waco became a patent litigation hotspot

    One judge is taking heat for making the central Texas town so popular with plaintiffs

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Media
    Japanese studios fight back against pirates uploading 10-minute ‘fast movies’

    Companies claim copyright on condensed film versions that are popular with young viewers

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Impossible Foods Inc
    Plant-based meat groups in court battle over taste of their products

    Impossible Foods claims rival Motif has infringed its patent on a product that uses an iron-containing molecule

  • Monday, 18 April, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    America is struggling to counter China’s intellectual property theft

    US should avoid racial profiling and raise law enforcement’s tech knowhow

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    EU trade
    EU seeks protected status for goods such as Donegal tweed and Limoges porcelain

    Initiative aimed at boosting jobs and weeding out cheap competition

  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part Two)

    Is China’s rapid advancement in technology driven by theft of US trade secrets?

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Tech Tonic podcast32 min listen
    US-China Tech Race: Spies & Lies (Part One)

    What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese-American scientist in the middle of the night?

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    EU trade
    EU accuses China of ‘power grab’ over smartphone tech licensing

    Legal challenge at WTO alleges patent infringements are costing European manufacturers billions of euros

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    A Covid vaccine breakthrough bypasses the stale debate on patent waivers

    Fractious World Trade Organization talks on overriding intellectual property rights look increasingly irrelevant

  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Apply for FT ranking: Europe’s leading patent law firms 2022

    Clients and peers to recommend firms and rate them for specialist expertise

  • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
    Ocado Group PLC
    Ocado shares jump on legal victory in patent dispute

    US International Trade Commission’s ruling in favour of British group offsets mixed trading update

  • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
    FT Wealth
    Big screen bets: novel platforms for investors in indie film

    A scion of a famous movie family has a start-up to ‘open the doors to new talent’

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    EU loosens defence of pharma groups on Covid vaccine patents

    Softened approach to intellectual property would allow emerging markets to manufacture own treatments

  • Tuesday, 23 November, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    JRR Tolkien estate vanquishes ‘Lord of the Rings’ themed cryptocurrency

    Late author’s estate wins trademark infringement case against JRR Token domain name

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