The firm is shaping its AI strategy around partnerships with Harvey and Legora alongside internally developed tools from its legal technology company, ELTEMATE
Injunctions for HandsFree Labs and Align Technology come as the Court of Appeal warns that busy teams must have the staffing and resources to meet UPC deadlines
The chief technology officer remit, which has been created as the firm is building its litigation team, will include expanding the use of AI in patent and legal work and automating manual processes
Former Hoyng Rokh Moneiger partner Laura Alonso, who brought her team to ECIJA in March, discusses plans to expand further and why ECIJA’s ‘IP DNA’ is helping broaden her work
François Pochart, Grégoire Desrousseaux and Lionel Martin, long-standing figures in the firm’s patent litigation team, are set to help launch a Paris-based litigation offering
The Unitary Patent has passed 100,000 registrations, but new data raises the question of whether 30% uptake is a ceiling or a staging post for further growth, say Michael Nielsen and Darren Smyth of EIP and Andrew Samm at Patently
SKW Schwarz partner Daniel Kendziur explains how new green claims rules are changing his workload and bringing him into direct contact with marketing, PR and government affairs teams
Ana Rita Paínho and Ana Filipa Tavares of Bird & Bird explore how overlapping intellectual property, database, trade secret, and AI rules require Portuguese businesses to adopt more integrated legal strategies
Igor Charles and Théo Coquis of INLEX explain a courtroom battle over a weaponised ‘Obelix’ mark and how the decision provides guidance on the evidence required to establish a trademark’s reputation
