Useful Documents
Business Club Video
The Telegraph asked GJE to contribute a short film for their popular Business Club website in order to share some of the factors which have made us successful. So we asked a number of entrepreneurial clients to say a few words about why they like working with GJE.
Intellectual Property Overview: An Introduction to IP Risk For Business
Peter Finnie and Arnie Clarke
For many technology-led companies IP is a key asset that supports the business both directly and as a means to secure private equity funding from investors. This introductory overview examines the IP-related risks many businesses face and how they can be avoided, mitigated and resolved.
Intellectual Property Overview: Business Innovation and IP Strategy - Making it Work (PDF)
Peter Finnie & David Stead
Most companies recognise the importance of IP but many don't have the right strategy or structure in place. This article appeared in a special report on business innovation in The Telegraph.
Patent Guide: Patenting on a Budget part 1 - Patent Acquisition
Arnie Clarke
The first of a series of related articles which take a fresh look at the holy grail of the IP world: how to obtain, maintain, monitor and enforce patents in a cost-effective way.
Patent Guide: Patenting on a Budget part 2 - Patent Clearance Searches
Peter Finnie and Fiona Law
The second in a series of related articles, which deal with managing and monitoring patents on a budget. In this article we explain why you should monitor third party IP, and how to conduct cost-effective clearance searches.
Patent Guide: The Role of a Patent Attorney
Peter Finnie
This article explores some of the hidden risks associated with intellectual property and comments on the service clients should expect from their IP advisors.
Brand Protection Guide: What's In A Name?
Rowena Powell
Sometimes your brand can be more valuable than your business' tangible assets. Here we look at the risks of failing to protect your trade marks and why good brand protection might just be winning ticket to securing investment.
Brand Protection Guide: Availability is Everything - The Importance Of A Trade Mark Search
Mark Devaney
In this second articles we look at the practicalities of carrying out a trade mark search and the reasons to do so - beyond the obvious.
Links
The following list of references and web site links are ones which we hope you find useful. However, GJE does not accept any responsibility for the content of external internet sites.
UK Intellectual Property Office
European Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organisation
O.H.I.M (Community Trade Marks and Designs Office)
Computer Patent Annuities Limited
GJE News
100 years of Excellence: 2012 is GJE's Centenary year
1st January 2012.
A lot has happened over the last century. We look at the story so far and some of the early inventions that Gill Jennings & Every helped usher into the world.
1st December 2011.
In this Briefing - Preparing for proposed UK tax breaks on patent-based innovation and is this the beginning of the end for the "class heading" approach to filing Community-wide trade mark applications?
The UK's 'Patent Box' proposals: Tax breaks on some IP-based profits
December 2011.
On 6 December 2011 the UK Government revealed the next phase in its plan to provide a reduced corporation tax rate for companies exploiting patent and related IP rights. Helen Jones looks at the details and implications.
Technology Strategy Board offering IP Audit funding
December 2011.
UK companies can receive up to £3,000 funding towards a full ‘IP Audit’ as part of a new initiative from the government-funded Technology Strategy Board
GJE News Briefing: Domain name upheaval & the UK shifts on 'industrial applicability'
1st December 2011.
In this Briefing - How best to prepare for the coming expansion of Internet top level domains and the implications of the UK Supreme Court's first patent decision.
GJE News Briefing: Changes at OHIM and the EPO
10th November 2011.
GJE launches its new regular e-mail briefing. In this issue: The EPO starts offering second opinions and the OHIM starts offering trade mark mediation. But what are practical implications?
Baker Hughes-Verdande deal demonstrates IP strategy’s M&A value
September 2011
Verdande Technology last week praised GJE's role in the successful completion of a deal that saw oil-field services giant Baker Hughes take a minority stake in Verdande Technology subsidiary Verdande Energy.
Intrepid trio abseil Broadgate Tower, raise over £1,600 for the British Red Cross
September 2011
GJE star abseilers Michela Cester, Kay Leadley, and Sarah Hepworth launched themselves from the the top of the Broadgate Tower this week as part of a bid to raise funds for the British Red Cross.
The average client's experience of GJE falls between ‘very pleased’ and ‘delighted’
July 2011
Gill Jennings & Every has scored highly in an independent survey designed to measure client satisfaction. The firm received particular praise for its commercial-minded approach, business understanding and its ability to build a constructive relationship.
The future for European non-traditional trade marks
June 2011
The suggestion that Europe should remove the graphical representation requirement from trade mark registrations won't open the floodgates to non-traditional marks... at least not yet, argues Mark Devaney.
Walking the Planck with Europe’s trademark system
May 2011
High-profile research foundation the Max Planck Institute has probed the effectiveness of the European trademark system. Mark Devaney and Anna Blackburn of Gill Jennings & Every examine some of the group’s findings for New Legal Review
GJE argument leads EPO Technical Board of Appeal to revoke key pharmaceutical patent
May 2011
An innovative argument by GJE has persuaded the EPO Technical Board of Appeal that the claims of the patent lack an inventive step. The decision paves the way for for the generic manufacture of the most useful drug for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
New study reveals high tech businesses are failing to exploit the full value of their IP
March 2011
Fewer than one in five hi-tech businesses see revenue generation as a key aspect of managing their IP folio according to a new study by GJE and Codexx, the business innovation consultancy. Consequently many companies are ignoring the significant potential of some revenue streams - particularly IP licensing.
March 2011
The Council of the European Union has voted to create a unitary European patent that would mean substantial cost-savings for innovators in Europe. However, in the same week the Court of Justice of the European Union rejected the creation of a pan-European patent court. Without the establishment of such a court, GJE believes that the effectiveness of a pan-European patent will be seriously compromised.
December 2010
The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) recently issued an important Decision on the scope of the exclusion to patentability of claims covering "essentially biological processes".
GJE launches a new team to help clients benefit from cost effective IP litigation reforms
October 2010
The potential cost liability arising from IP litigation in the UK Patents County Court (PCC) has been a big obstacle for organisations wanting to protect their rights. Smaller businesses have found it difficult to enforce their rights against those with "deeper pockets" and so may have refrained from litigation activities. This changed from 1st October 2010.
GJE offers IP litigation services and can discuss fixed fee packages linked to the new capped costs.
September 2010
Our client, Dr. Manel Torres, Managing Director of Fabrican Limited showcased his invention, Spray-On Fabric, at the London Fashion Show on 20th September 2010.
Clean technologies raise new issues for IP Law (PDF)
July 2010
In this article Helen Jones & Chris Owen consider some of the emerging issues, the distinctions from and the parallels with more developed areas such as IT or biotech.
GJE Helps Land of the Giants (Link to Daily Telegraph Site)
Our clients Choi + Shine Architects received the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award for their innovative and striking pylon design, based on human figures these modern caryatids can be arranged in postures that are appropriate for their environment. The design was originally conceived for Icelandic power company Landsnet's 'Land of Giants' project, where it received an honourable mention. GJE advised Choi + Shine on an appropriate IP strategy, based on securing registered design protection for their humanoid pylon design
Into The Dragons Den (105K - pdf)
GJE helps Michael Pritchard prepare for his successful appearance in the BBC's Dragons Den
Intellectual property: protecting your inventions, preparing for investment (115K - pdf)
Double page article in Business First magazine, which went out with every copy of The Sunday Times on Feb 28th, with contributions from Peter Finnie and Robert Perry of GJE
Intellectual property rights essential in attracting investment for Sheffield-based ITM Power (93K - pdf)
Robert Perry of GJE argues that without the protection against copying that ITM’s patents give the company, it would have been impossible to make the long-term investment needed.
Michael Pritchard secures £125,000 on Dragons’ Den
for intellectual property licensing (46K - pdf)
Serial inventor Michael Pritchard has successfully secured funding on the BBC2 programme ‘Dragons’ Den’ for his ANYWAY® Spray invention. The deal centres on a joint investment by the two Dragons, Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis, of £125,000 for a 10 per cent equity stake each in an IP holding company owned with Michael Pritchard.
GJE Successful in Overturning Comptroller's Decision to Refuse Truvada
Supplementary Protection Certificate (58K - pdf)
Helen Jones and Isobel Davies report on this landmark decision to allow Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s appeal against the Comptroller's decision refusing its application for an SPC application, SPC/GB05/041.