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- Surely no-one would ever claim to own the rights to Christmas?
- It's a funny old game
- Trunki - Errors of judgement?
- No way, Jose
- Could the post-Brexit UK still participate in the Unitary Patent?
- EU Unitary Patent: UK to ratify after all?
- Growth of UK investment in intellectual property rights
- Is intellectual property (IP) strategy relevant to SMEs?
- A resolution to self-collision?
- Eli Lilly vs Actavis
- UK's reputation as a nation of innovators in jeopardy?
- Post-Brexit protection of intellectual property rights: trade marks, designs and rights of representation
- Top 5 tips on intellectual property protection for medical devices
- I've received a cease and desist letter; what do I do now?
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- First successful petition for review of EPO Appeal decision
- US PTO abandons attempt to force through new rules
- UKIPO issues 100th "Opinion"
- EPO issues clarification of new rules on divisional patent applications
- San Marino joins European Patent System
- Thailand joins PCT
- UK Supreme court replaces House of Lords
- UKIPO issues guide to SPCs
- EPO to require details of search results
- Fee increases at the EPO
- Major change in EPO practice - Mandatory responses to WOISA/IPRP
- Referral to ECJ - patentability of human embryos
- Date of publication on the internet: UKIPO differs from EPO
- Closer to a unitary EU patent? Probably not
- Five major IP offices launch own website
- UK Patent Fees to Rise
- Saudi Arabia to join PCT
- New EPO rules - an update
- Dosage Regimes - EPO Enlarged Board issues decision
- Extended Passing Off - VODKAT is not vodka
- New EPO President Chosen
- EPO Enlarged Board issues decision on surgical methods
- Extension of European Patents to Montenegro
- New Tax Break for UK Companies
- Expansion of European Patent System
- Pharma patent lifetime truncated in Brazil
- One click is not inventive says EPO
- Two patents for one invention - why not?
- Gene patents overturned
- Software Patents in Europe - Enlarged Board of Appeal refuses to consider questions
- Duty to disclose prior art extends to everyone substantially involved in patent application
- Court confirms information must not be withheld when drafting patent specification
- Can an SPC have a negative term? Court of Justice to decide
- Israel - Changes to patent practice
- The Patents County Court: a new era in UK patent litigation?
- EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal decides: refused application is still pending (for a while)
- German court allows patent for method useful in medical treatment
- EPO Rules Change Again (this time for the better!)
- UK intellectual property system to be reviewed
- Serbia joins EPC; Hungary to join London Agreement
- New dosage regimes can be patentable inventions
- EPO Enlarged Board comments on computer program patentability
- Blow to dream of unified European patent litigation system
- Reforming the US patent system
- Incentives for UK businesses – the "Patent Box"
- Unitary right means unitary injunctions for Community Trade Marks
- Are gene patents allowable? Progress in the Myriad gene case
- The Importance of Registering Assignments
- Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth - UK Intellectual Property review
- The Launch of Peer-to-Patent Review
- Broccoli and Tomatoes – the Patentability of Biological Processes
- US patents remain hard to overturn
- US Patent reform one step closer?
- Spain and Italy oppose Unitary Patent
- New Way to File Third Party Observations
- US Gene Patents – Further Progress in the Myriad Gene Case
- New standard for inequitable conduct in the US?
- Imminent Changes to US Patent Law
- The Patents County Court: Litigation for the little guy
- Territorial Broadcasting Rights and EU Competition Law
- Closing the gap between software patentability in Europe and the UK?
- Embryonic Stem Cells not Patentable in Europe
- Two chances to amend in the International Phase
- Ipsum: New Online Patent Inspection Service from the UKIPO
- Small scale litigation in the Patents County Court
- Are gene sequences capable of Industrial Application?
- Clarification of requirements for an SPC
- European Patent Office: Consultations on law amendments
- Electronic communications from the EPO
- The launch of "Consultation on Copyright"
- Record number of European Patent filings in 2011
- Changes to EPO grant procedure
- New translation service from Google and the EPO
- New Referral in the Tomato Case
- Novelty: three decisions from Europe
- UK Court decision in Apple vs Samsung
- UKIPO Consultation on Clinical Trial Exemption
- Advocate General decides against Spain and Italy
- Government pledges further £600m to UK Research Councils
- EPO Divisional Applications: Possible change to filing deadline
- The EU unitary patent regime: Will it happen and what will it mean?
- How can your business benefit from the UK Patent Box?
- US Changes to First-to-File Patent System
- New USPTO Patent Fees Effective 19 March 2013
- India joins the International trade mark system
- Don't blame the beans!
- The Supreme Court rules in the Myriad Gene case
- Trade Marks: Changes to Calculation Deadlines at the UKIPO
- UK & EPO Patents: Self-Collision & Priority
- The EU Patent - First step to implementation
- International Patents: Saudi Arabia joins the PCT
- UK Patent Practice: MOPP Update
- More setbacks for big pharma in India
- Employees need effective patents as much as their employers
- EPO Divisionals: End to controversial time limit
- Another welcome change to EPO rules
- Tunisia joins the Madrid Protocol
- New Trade Mark Law in China
- Fast Track Trade Mark Oppositions in the United Kingdom
- New Patent Law in New Zealand
- Patent County Court changes
- New EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Referrals
- EPO guidelines for examination update
- Priority: A high priority issue
- EPO fee increases - April 2014
- More EPO fee changes
- Changes to Patent Legislation in Singapore
- MOPP update
- Global Patent Prosecution Highway
- New free chemical patent database
- Changes to UKIPO Manual of Patent Practice
- Prospective reform of threats legislation
- Common Practice on Black and White trade marks
- UKIPO Patent Informatics for key technologies
- Clarity in EPO Oppositions - clarification needed
- EU Unitary Patent - More progress
- UK Intellectual Property Act 2014
- Second medical use claims and double patenting (T1780/12)
- Changes to New Zealand Patents Act
- Protection for dosage regimes in China
- Updates to UK Design Law come into effect
- Supermarket should've gone to Specsavers
- Profiting from innovation
- Update on the UK Patent Box - Changes to Patent Strategy
- Electronic Documents from the EPO - extra care needed
- Kuwait joins the Paris Convention
- Patent drawings - not necessarily what they appear to be
- Trade Marks for 3D Shapes
- Designs - That's the way the cookie crumbles
- CJEU decides in favour of Patentability for Parthnogenetically-activated Human Ova
- Can Patent Claims have Partial Priorities?
- Numbers in Patent Drawings - can they be used to construe the claims?
- International Trade Marks - More countries join system
- New option for patent protection in Morocco
- International Design Registration – USA and Japan join system
- European Patents: Clarity on the need for clarity
- New use of a known medical device: patentable in Europe?
- Patents for plants: EPO Enlarged Board provides some guidance
- Amendments to South Korean patent law
- SPC referral to CJEU: Actavis v Boehringer
- T 557/13: Partial Priority
- CTMs: Registration does not equal reputation
- Google to purchase patents?
- Synthon v Teva Pharmaceutical: Purity can be inventive
- Unitary EU Patent - Update August 2015
- Interim Injunctions - Be careful what you wish for
- Proposed Community Trade Mark Reform
- UK candidates once again star in European Qualifying Examinations
- Keeping up with the PACE
- Changes to UK "Patent Box"
- EU Unitary Patent: More progress, but uncertainty remains
- Changes to European Trade Marks
- UK industry displays its true IP awareness
- EPO Oppositions: Moving faster in future
- Business as usual despite Brexit
- Important changes to UK Patent Rules
- Speeding up Patent Grant at the UKIPO
- Guide to the IP impact of "Brexit"
- UK government will proceed with preparations to ratify the UPC agreement
- Trade Mark Attorneys receive Chartered status
- Cambodia - Another route to patent protection in this emerging economy
- Tackling healthcare challenges: funding competition launches 30 March 2017
- EPO adopts stricter requirements for recording assignments
- New guidance for registering designs in the United Kingdom
- UK set to join the Hague System
- The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act, 2017
- Patentability of products of essentially biological processes
- EU Trade Mark Reform
- Changes to fees for UK patent applications from 6 April 2018
- UK businesses can apply for a share of £10 million for innovation projects in medicines manufacturing
- plausibility-affects-patent-requirements
- UK ratifies Hague Agreement for industrial designs
- UK ratifies the UPC Agreement
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AJ News
- Addition to technical team
- New face in our Administration Dept
- Cooper Parry Corporate Challenge 2009
- Claire Mountain takes new role
- Patricia® User Group
- European patent successfully defended
- New website launched
- AJ Sponsors Bio-Entrepreneur School
- Bio-Entrepreneur School attracts international delegates
- Examination Successes
- Conversion of AdamsonJones to a limited company
- New addition to technical team
- Holiday Closures
- AdamsonJones runs for charity
- Further growth at AdamsonJones
- More examination success at AdamsonJones
- A prizewinner at AdamsonJones
- David Gwilliam qualifies as Patent Attorney
- New members of technical team
- New Appointments at AdamsonJones
- Holiday Opening Hours
- Office Move
- Steve Jones to speak alongside IPO at MediLink event
- Adamson Jones joins Medilink stand at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2013
- Breakfast Briefing: EU Unitary Patent - are you ready?
- Top marks for AdamsonJones
- Adamson Jones joins Nottinghamshire finalists in Medilink Awards
- AdamsonJones Fundraising Challenge
- Appointment of new Director
- Patent Attorneys' Peak Challenge
- Twenty guests at Twenty20
- First Triathlon for AJ Fundraisers
- Patently fit for business
- Robin Hood Corporate Relay Winners
- PATent - A - CAKE
- Fundraising total 2013
- Holiday Opening Hours 2013-14
- The rise of innovation
- Chris MacDonald joins Physical Sciences & Engineering team
- AdamsonJones at MediCity
- Exam success is a family affair
- IP advice for advisers
- Fundraising for Practical Action
- Forest trails are next adventure challenge for AJ
- Celebrating 10 years at BioCity
- Nottingham SportsAid sponsored by AdamsonJones
- INTA Annual Meeting 2015
- Give & Gain at Green's Mill
- More than a Marathon for Team AJ
- Simon Cooper appointed chair of CIPA External Affairs Working Group
- Nottingham Hospitals Charity is nominated charity for AJ
- First ranking in The Legal 500 UK
- A podium finish and fundraising win for AdamsonJones & Air-IT
- Notts businesses rally to raise £400 for charity
- AdamsonJones launches initiative to support innovative SMEs
- Over £800 raised for East Midlands' top young athletes
- Freya and Ben make a pair of patent attorneys
- Darren Bicknell speaks at sports charity lunch event
- European double for AdamsonJones
- All fired up for fundraising
- Nottingham Hospitals Charity fundraising thank you
- Supporting innovation in Leicester
- The Jones family is running 150km in one day for Narcolepsy UK
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- Nottingham businesses raise over £700 at SportsAid charity lunch
- Changing of the guard
- AdamsonJones listed in the Legal 500 for third consecutive year
- Seasons greetings and Christmas opening hours
- Move to larger offices to accommodate Leicester growth
- AdamsonJones way ahead in ensuring Nottinghamshire companies are protected
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Events
- Advanced Engineering UK 2013 group of events
- Emita event: Protecting your business in the global marketplace
- Medilink East Midlands AGM and networking
- D2N2 LEP Innovation Summit
- Every business owns IP - what do you own?
- Profiting from Innovation
- Baker Tilly Budget 2014 Event
- LATi Bar: Patents - Commercial Opportunity or Liability
- CleanTech Connections Lunch 21 March
- Science of Entrepreneurship
- CQ Connect Launch
- Enscite Launch Event
- Exporting: Protecting your Intellectual Property
- Nottingham City Business Club Lunch
- Horizon 2020 event - Melton Mowbray
- The Engineering Simulation Show
- Breakfast with the BIA - Nottingham
- Invest in Nottingham AGM
- East Midlands Infectious Disease Research Network SIG
- Advisors to Business (A2B) Seminar
- Nottingham Professional Services - Made in Nottinghamshire!
- DNCC: Manufacturing and Engineering Forum
- Understanding Data Protection, Commercial Contracts and Patents/Trademarking
- Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day
- D2N2 LEP Annual Conference
- Midlands Innovation in Industry
- Midlands Innovation Breakfast 2014
- Emita Summer BBQ
- Electrochem 2014
- Intellectual Property - What You Need to Know
- Future Factory design intervention event - 3D software and printing
- MediCity Innovators' Week 2014
- Medilink East Midlands Annual General Meeting
- LATI Chemistry Showcase
- East Midlands Manufacturing & Engineering Conference
- Venturefest East Midlands 2015
- Key aspects of Intellectual Property for Exporters
- AIPLA 2015 Spring Meeting
- INTA 2015 Annual Meeting
- Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day 2015
- Future Factory: Design Management & Innovation
- EU Sustainable Energy Week: Preparing the UK for the energy transition
- Food Supplements Special Interest Group (SIG)
- Future Factory Event: Eco Design
- Manufacturing & Engineering Forum - ASDEC
- Emita members only event - visit to SMS Electronics
- Medilink East Midlands Summer BBQ
- Nelsons Solicitors Forum - are you considering setting up an overseas operation?
- East Midlands Business Link Legal 500 Breakfast
- AIPPI Congress 2015
- Midlands International Trade Expo and Conference 2015 (MITEC)
- Innovation Clinic: How to fund and protect your innovations
- Medilink: Meet in the Midlands networking event
- Love Business Expo 2016
- Innovation Clinic: Funding & protection for your innovations
- MIW 2016: The Future of Proactive Healthtech
- Venturefest East Midlands 2016
- Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2016
- LATi 2016 BioScience Showcase
- UKTI Event: Access India
- Meet the Experts
- LATi 2016 Showcase
- Meet in the Midlands
- Love Business EXPO East Midlands 2017
- Venturefest East Midlands 2017
- East Midlands Manufacturing & Engineering Conference & Expo 2017
- LATi 2017 Expert Exchange: AI and Machine Learning
- Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2017
- Brand & IP Lunchtime Debrief
- LATi 2017 Life Sciences Showcase: Personalised Healthcare
- National Manufacturing Debate 2017
- Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day 2017
- Insider: Future of East Midlands Manufacturing Breakfast
- Innovation InCharnwood Showcase
- AIPLA 2017 Annual Meeting
- Export and International Trade for Beginners
- PM Forum: GDPR and your database
- Meet in the Midlands 2017
- East Midlands Manufacturing and Engineering Conference 2018
- Medilink East Midlands AGM 2018
- INTA 2018 Annual Meeting
- ip-toolkit-for-research-and-product-design
- Protecting your Business Ideas
- EMITA Webinar Briefing: Intellectual Property Update
- Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day 2018
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Blog
- File Wrapper Estoppel
- Welcome to the AJ Blog
- Registering an Interest in Design
- Key points of interest from the UKIPO's latest "Facts & Figures" report
- The Unitary Patent - Will UK politics get in the way?
- "Brexit": What would it mean for UK IP rights?
- Surely no-one would ever claim to own the rights to Christmas?
- It's a funny old game
- Trunki - Errors of judgement?
- No way, Jose
- Could the post-Brexit UK still participate in the Unitary Patent?
- EU Unitary Patent: UK to ratify after all?
- Growth of UK investment in intellectual property rights
- Is intellectual property (IP) strategy relevant to SMEs?
- A resolution to self-collision?
- Eli Lilly vs Actavis
- UK's reputation as a nation of innovators in jeopardy?
- Post-Brexit protection of intellectual property rights: trade marks, designs and rights of representation
- Top 5 tips on intellectual property protection for medical devices
- I've received a cease and desist letter; what do I do now?
- What can we take away from the European Annual Report 2017
- I have an idea I’d like to protect
- Contact Us
-
Services
- Intellectual Property
- IP Strategy
-
UK and European Representation
- Information for Associates in the US
- Information for Associates in Africa
- Information for Associates in Asia
- Information for Associates in Australia & New Zealand
- Information for Associates in Canada
- Information for Associates in China
- Information for Associates in India
- Information for Associates in Japan
- Information for Associates in South Korea
- Information for Associates in South America
- Services for Clients and Associates in Europe
- Direct Client Tariff
- Services tailored to your Business
- Technical Expertise
-
About Us
- Resources
-
News & Events
-
IP News
- First successful petition for review of EPO Appeal decision
- US PTO abandons attempt to force through new rules
- UKIPO issues 100th "Opinion"
- EPO issues clarification of new rules on divisional patent applications
- San Marino joins European Patent System
- Thailand joins PCT
- UK Supreme court replaces House of Lords
- UKIPO issues guide to SPCs
- EPO to require details of search results
- Fee increases at the EPO
- Major change in EPO practice - Mandatory responses to WOISA/IPRP
- Referral to ECJ - patentability of human embryos
- Date of publication on the internet: UKIPO differs from EPO
- Closer to a unitary EU patent? Probably not
- Five major IP offices launch own website
- UK Patent Fees to Rise
- Saudi Arabia to join PCT
- New EPO rules - an update
- Dosage Regimes - EPO Enlarged Board issues decision
- Extended Passing Off - VODKAT is not vodka
- New EPO President Chosen
- EPO Enlarged Board issues decision on surgical methods
- Extension of European Patents to Montenegro
- New Tax Break for UK Companies
- Expansion of European Patent System
- Pharma patent lifetime truncated in Brazil
- One click is not inventive says EPO
- Two patents for one invention - why not?
- Gene patents overturned
- Software Patents in Europe - Enlarged Board of Appeal refuses to consider questions
- Duty to disclose prior art extends to everyone substantially involved in patent application
- Court confirms information must not be withheld when drafting patent specification
- Can an SPC have a negative term? Court of Justice to decide
- Israel - Changes to patent practice
- The Patents County Court: a new era in UK patent litigation?
- EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal decides: refused application is still pending (for a while)
- German court allows patent for method useful in medical treatment
- EPO Rules Change Again (this time for the better!)
- UK intellectual property system to be reviewed
- Serbia joins EPC; Hungary to join London Agreement
- New dosage regimes can be patentable inventions
- EPO Enlarged Board comments on computer program patentability
- Blow to dream of unified European patent litigation system
- Reforming the US patent system
- Incentives for UK businesses – the "Patent Box"
- Unitary right means unitary injunctions for Community Trade Marks
- Are gene patents allowable? Progress in the Myriad gene case
- The Importance of Registering Assignments
- Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth - UK Intellectual Property review
- The Launch of Peer-to-Patent Review
- Broccoli and Tomatoes – the Patentability of Biological Processes
- US patents remain hard to overturn
- US Patent reform one step closer?
- Spain and Italy oppose Unitary Patent
- New Way to File Third Party Observations
- US Gene Patents – Further Progress in the Myriad Gene Case
- New standard for inequitable conduct in the US?
- Imminent Changes to US Patent Law
- The Patents County Court: Litigation for the little guy
- Territorial Broadcasting Rights and EU Competition Law
- Closing the gap between software patentability in Europe and the UK?
- Embryonic Stem Cells not Patentable in Europe
- Two chances to amend in the International Phase
- Ipsum: New Online Patent Inspection Service from the UKIPO
- Small scale litigation in the Patents County Court
- Are gene sequences capable of Industrial Application?
- Clarification of requirements for an SPC
- European Patent Office: Consultations on law amendments
- Electronic communications from the EPO
- The launch of "Consultation on Copyright"
- Record number of European Patent filings in 2011
- Changes to EPO grant procedure
- New translation service from Google and the EPO
- New Referral in the Tomato Case
- Novelty: three decisions from Europe
- UK Court decision in Apple vs Samsung
- UKIPO Consultation on Clinical Trial Exemption
- Advocate General decides against Spain and Italy
- Government pledges further £600m to UK Research Councils
- EPO Divisional Applications: Possible change to filing deadline
- The EU unitary patent regime: Will it happen and what will it mean?
- How can your business benefit from the UK Patent Box?
- US Changes to First-to-File Patent System
- New USPTO Patent Fees Effective 19 March 2013
- India joins the International trade mark system
- Don't blame the beans!
- The Supreme Court rules in the Myriad Gene case
- Trade Marks: Changes to Calculation Deadlines at the UKIPO
- UK & EPO Patents: Self-Collision & Priority
- The EU Patent - First step to implementation
- International Patents: Saudi Arabia joins the PCT
- UK Patent Practice: MOPP Update
- More setbacks for big pharma in India
- Employees need effective patents as much as their employers
- EPO Divisionals: End to controversial time limit
- Another welcome change to EPO rules
- Tunisia joins the Madrid Protocol
- New Trade Mark Law in China
- Fast Track Trade Mark Oppositions in the United Kingdom
- New Patent Law in New Zealand
- Patent County Court changes
- New EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Referrals
- EPO guidelines for examination update
- Priority: A high priority issue
- EPO fee increases - April 2014
- More EPO fee changes
- Changes to Patent Legislation in Singapore
- MOPP update
- Global Patent Prosecution Highway
- New free chemical patent database
- Changes to UKIPO Manual of Patent Practice
- Prospective reform of threats legislation
- Common Practice on Black and White trade marks
- UKIPO Patent Informatics for key technologies
- Clarity in EPO Oppositions - clarification needed
- EU Unitary Patent - More progress
- UK Intellectual Property Act 2014
- Second medical use claims and double patenting (T1780/12)
- Changes to New Zealand Patents Act
- Protection for dosage regimes in China
- Updates to UK Design Law come into effect
- Supermarket should've gone to Specsavers
- Profiting from innovation
- Update on the UK Patent Box - Changes to Patent Strategy
- Electronic Documents from the EPO - extra care needed
- Kuwait joins the Paris Convention
- Patent drawings - not necessarily what they appear to be
- Trade Marks for 3D Shapes
- Designs - That's the way the cookie crumbles
- CJEU decides in favour of Patentability for Parthnogenetically-activated Human Ova
- Can Patent Claims have Partial Priorities?
- Numbers in Patent Drawings - can they be used to construe the claims?
- International Trade Marks - More countries join system
- New option for patent protection in Morocco
- International Design Registration – USA and Japan join system
- European Patents: Clarity on the need for clarity
- New use of a known medical device: patentable in Europe?
- Patents for plants: EPO Enlarged Board provides some guidance
- Amendments to South Korean patent law
- SPC referral to CJEU: Actavis v Boehringer
- T 557/13: Partial Priority
- CTMs: Registration does not equal reputation
- Google to purchase patents?
- Synthon v Teva Pharmaceutical: Purity can be inventive
- Unitary EU Patent - Update August 2015
- Interim Injunctions - Be careful what you wish for
- Proposed Community Trade Mark Reform
- UK candidates once again star in European Qualifying Examinations
- Keeping up with the PACE
- Changes to UK "Patent Box"
- EU Unitary Patent: More progress, but uncertainty remains
- Changes to European Trade Marks
- UK industry displays its true IP awareness
- EPO Oppositions: Moving faster in future
- Business as usual despite Brexit
- Important changes to UK Patent Rules
- Speeding up Patent Grant at the UKIPO
- Guide to the IP impact of "Brexit"
- UK government will proceed with preparations to ratify the UPC agreement
- Trade Mark Attorneys receive Chartered status
- Cambodia - Another route to patent protection in this emerging economy
- Tackling healthcare challenges: funding competition launches 30 March 2017
- EPO adopts stricter requirements for recording assignments
- New guidance for registering designs in the United Kingdom
- UK set to join the Hague System
- The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act, 2017
- Patentability of products of essentially biological processes
- EU Trade Mark Reform
- Changes to fees for UK patent applications from 6 April 2018
- UK businesses can apply for a share of £10 million for innovation projects in medicines manufacturing
- plausibility-affects-patent-requirements
- UK ratifies Hague Agreement for industrial designs
- UK ratifies the UPC Agreement
-
AJ News
- Addition to technical team
- New face in our Administration Dept
- Cooper Parry Corporate Challenge 2009
- Claire Mountain takes new role
- Patricia® User Group
- European patent successfully defended
- New website launched
- AJ Sponsors Bio-Entrepreneur School
- Bio-Entrepreneur School attracts international delegates
- Examination Successes
- Conversion of AdamsonJones to a limited company
- New addition to technical team
- Holiday Closures
- AdamsonJones runs for charity
- Further growth at AdamsonJones
- More examination success at AdamsonJones
- A prizewinner at AdamsonJones
- David Gwilliam qualifies as Patent Attorney
- New members of technical team
- New Appointments at AdamsonJones
- Holiday Opening Hours
- Office Move
- Steve Jones to speak alongside IPO at MediLink event
- Adamson Jones joins Medilink stand at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2013
- Breakfast Briefing: EU Unitary Patent - are you ready?
- Top marks for AdamsonJones
- Adamson Jones joins Nottinghamshire finalists in Medilink Awards
- AdamsonJones Fundraising Challenge
- Appointment of new Director
- Patent Attorneys' Peak Challenge
- Twenty guests at Twenty20
- First Triathlon for AJ Fundraisers
- Patently fit for business
- Robin Hood Corporate Relay Winners
- PATent - A - CAKE
- Fundraising total 2013
- Holiday Opening Hours 2013-14
- The rise of innovation
- Chris MacDonald joins Physical Sciences & Engineering team
- AdamsonJones at MediCity
- Exam success is a family affair
- IP advice for advisers
- Fundraising for Practical Action
- Forest trails are next adventure challenge for AJ
- Celebrating 10 years at BioCity
- Nottingham SportsAid sponsored by AdamsonJones
- INTA Annual Meeting 2015
- Give & Gain at Green's Mill
- More than a Marathon for Team AJ
- Simon Cooper appointed chair of CIPA External Affairs Working Group
- Nottingham Hospitals Charity is nominated charity for AJ
- First ranking in The Legal 500 UK
- A podium finish and fundraising win for AdamsonJones & Air-IT
- Notts businesses rally to raise £400 for charity
- AdamsonJones launches initiative to support innovative SMEs
- Over £800 raised for East Midlands' top young athletes
- Freya and Ben make a pair of patent attorneys
- Darren Bicknell speaks at sports charity lunch event
- European double for AdamsonJones
- All fired up for fundraising
- Nottingham Hospitals Charity fundraising thank you
- Supporting innovation in Leicester
- The Jones family is running 150km in one day for Narcolepsy UK
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- Nottingham businesses raise over £700 at SportsAid charity lunch
- Changing of the guard
- AdamsonJones listed in the Legal 500 for third consecutive year
- Seasons greetings and Christmas opening hours
- Move to larger offices to accommodate Leicester growth
- AdamsonJones way ahead in ensuring Nottinghamshire companies are protected
-
Events
- Advanced Engineering UK 2013 group of events
- Emita event: Protecting your business in the global marketplace
- Medilink East Midlands AGM and networking
- D2N2 LEP Innovation Summit
- Every business owns IP - what do you own?
- Profiting from Innovation
- Baker Tilly Budget 2014 Event
- LATi Bar: Patents - Commercial Opportunity or Liability
- CleanTech Connections Lunch 21 March
- Science of Entrepreneurship
- CQ Connect Launch
- Enscite Launch Event
- Exporting: Protecting your Intellectual Property
- Nottingham City Business Club Lunch
- Horizon 2020 event - Melton Mowbray
- The Engineering Simulation Show
- Breakfast with the BIA - Nottingham
- Invest in Nottingham AGM
- East Midlands Infectious Disease Research Network SIG
- Advisors to Business (A2B) Seminar
- Nottingham Professional Services - Made in Nottinghamshire!
- DNCC: Manufacturing and Engineering Forum
- Understanding Data Protection, Commercial Contracts and Patents/Trademarking
- Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day
- D2N2 LEP Annual Conference
- Midlands Innovation in Industry
- Midlands Innovation Breakfast 2014
- Emita Summer BBQ
- Electrochem 2014
- Intellectual Property - What You Need to Know
- Future Factory design intervention event - 3D software and printing
- MediCity Innovators' Week 2014
- Medilink East Midlands Annual General Meeting
- LATI Chemistry Showcase
- East Midlands Manufacturing & Engineering Conference
- Venturefest East Midlands 2015
- Key aspects of Intellectual Property for Exporters
- AIPLA 2015 Spring Meeting
- INTA 2015 Annual Meeting
- Medilink East Midlands Innovation Day 2015
- Future Factory: Design Management & Innovation
- EU Sustainable Energy Week: Preparing the UK for the energy transition
- Food Supplements Special Interest Group (SIG)
- Future Factory Event: Eco Design
- Manufacturing & Engineering Forum - ASDEC
- Emita members only event - visit to SMS Electronics
- Medilink East Midlands Summer BBQ
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