| 1 | Overview of patents The overview summarises the main considerations relating to the protection and ownership of patents, both in the UK and internationally, and the management of a patent portfolio. Key commercial and legal considerations relating to the exploitation of patents are considered, including the licensing and sale of patents, confidentiality, the use of heads of agreement, local law issues, formalities, taxation, and the application of EU and UK competition law. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Patent box: overview An overview of the "patent box", the optional 10% UK corporation tax rate for profits attributable to patents and similar intellectual property. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Software and business method patents A note examining the patentability of software and business methods in the UK, Europe and the US. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Software and business methods patents: a quick guide A quick guide on using patents to protect your company's software and business methods.This is one of a series of quick guides, see Quick guides. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Companies Act 2006: implications for IP&IT This note discusses the changes made to the law by the Companies Act 2006 that have implications for intellectual property and information technology. The majority of the relevant changes came into force on 1 October 2009. However, sections of the Act providing for a new right for any person to object to an adjudicator if a company's name is the same as a name associated with the objector in which he has goodwill, or sufficiently similar to such a name that it would be likely to mislead came into force on 1 October 2008. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 6 | EU unitary patent This practice note describes the current patent system in the EU and its associated problems, and the history and current state of proposals to provide a single patent (previously referred to as a Community patent) covering the whole EU and a unified system for enforcing patents in the EU. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | In Dispute: Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus ... A discussion of the Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. litigation where Prometheus sued Mayo for infringing certain claims of two patents covering a method of optimizing the therapeutic efficacy of treating a patient suffering from certain autoimmune diseases. The main issue is whether a method that uses certain individualized drug metabolite measurements based on a law of nature to inform the calibration of the patient's drug dosage is patent-eligible subject matter. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Intangible property: tax The rules in Part 8 of the Corporation Tax Act 2009 apply to a company's intangible assets. This practice note considers those rules, and how they affect a company's liability to corporation tax. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Intellectual property issues relating to employees and ... This practice note considers how the UK intellectual property regime applies to employees and consultants. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | IP rights in the semiconductor industry This note explains the basic technical issues relating to the manufacture of semiconductor chips and describes the structure of the semiconductor chip manufacturing industry. This is followed by an analysis of how different intellectual property rights are used to protect various elements of a silicon chip manufacturing business. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Legal issues on assignment of intellectual property rights A practice note that discusses legal issues likely to arise on an assignment of intellectual property of any kind. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | Recording a change of name or address on the UK Patents ... A note summarising the procedure for applying to register a change of name or address of a proprietor, licensee, agent for service of documents or other named person or entity on the UK Patents Register. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Registration of interests in UK patents and patent applications A note summarising the procedure for registering assignments, licences and other transactions in relation to patents and patent applications, and the legal effect of doing so. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Taking security over intellectual property A note on taking security over intellectual property, including patents, trade marks, copyright and design rights. This note also contains links to a multi-jurisdictional guide to finance (which includes issues relating to taking security over intellectual property) and to a detailed note on taking security over intellectual property in the United States. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | Tax legislation tracker: intellectual property A document tracking the development of certain notable pieces of proposed new legislation relating to intellectual property taxation. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 16 | Threats actions and intellectual property rights This practice note summarises the relevant statutory provisions and key cases concerning threats to sue for infringement of intellectual property rights and provides practical advice on how these may affect any intellectual property (IP) disputes. | Practice notes | Maintained |