The articles accessible from this page are all written by partners or staff of Mewburn Ellis LLP. Those that have appeared in journals and other publications are reproduced with the permission of those publications. 

IP and commercial strategy
Written by Stephen Carter, this article appeared as a chapter in the Growing Business Handbook, 10th edition, published in 2008. 

 Patenting Photonics Research
This article was written by Andrew Feanside and published in July 2007 by Nature Publishing .

European and Japanese Patent Practice
Written by Jeremy Webster and published in the November 2007 issue of AIPPI Journal of the Japanese Group (Vol.32  No.6  2007).  This article talks about practice differences between the EPO and JPO. 

Building a Strong (European) Trade Mark
This article was written by Sofia Arenal and appears in the Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management, published in July 2007.  

Divisional Applications at the EPO
Written by David Harrison and published in epi Information June 2007, this article talks about the problems which may be faced by applicants filing precautionary divisional applications at the EPO.

Asserting your IP rights
Written by Sofia Arenal and published in The Times on 21st February 2007.  This article talks about aserting your intellectual property rights without the expense of litigation.

Patent Attorney: Recreate yourself as a master of invention
On 28th September 2006, The Independent published an article about a career as a patent attorney, to which patent attorney Eddie Walker contributed. Click here to link to the article.

UK Companies Fail to Invest in Design
This article from The Times of 5th September 2006 was written by partner Stephen Carter. It discusses the fact that many UK companies are failing to invest in and recognise the value of design.

Unregistered Community Designs
This article was written by two of our partners, Robert Watson and Stephen Carter. It first appeared in the May 2006 edition of Copyright World. The article discusses the implication a recent court ruling may have on Unregistered Community Designs. This appears by permission of Copyright World and may be downloaded for viewing but should not be distributed by e-mail or in any other way, nor should it be printed.

A Defective Directive?
Written by Stephen Carter and published in the World Intellectual Property Review, this article examines the rejection of the proposed European Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions by the European Parliament.