Mewburn Ellis donate £20,000 to Jonathan’s Voice & more…Keep up with what has been happening this week in our latest IP news round-up…

IPO introduces statements of grant for international designs

The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs allows you to protect a design in many different countries through a single application to the World Intellectual Property Organization.

World Intellectual Property Organisation Adopts Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

Following nearly twenty-five years of negotiations, members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) recently adopted a treaty implementing the new requirement for international patent applicants to disclose in their applications any Indigenous Peoples and/or communities that provided traditional knowledge on which the applicant drew in creating the invention sought to be patented.

Melissa Anyetei joins White & Case as a partner in Chicago

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Intellectual Property Practice and Global Technology Industry Group with the addition of Melissa Anyetei as a partner in Chicago.

Mewburn Ellis donate £20,000 to Jonathan’s Voice

As part of our community programme our inclusion and diversity collaboration group have once again chosen to support Jonathan’s Voice, a charity dedicated to supporting mental health specifically focusing on the IP sector, with a £20,000 donation.

IAM Strategy 300: Eight Murgitroyd Attorneys Named as World’s Leading IP Strategists 2024

The IAM Strategy 300 report recognises the top practitioners taking IP portfolio management to the next level, and we are delighted to have eight Murgitroyd attorneys included across our Patent and Trade Mark teams.