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We are delighted to announce that Lauren Palmer won the “Best Patent Paralegal” Award at the National Paralegal Awards ceremony held in Birmingham on 22 September.

Join us on 27th September as we discuss the role of intellectual property in greentech, circular economy and open innovation. Our panel of experts will be sharing their experiences of developing new green technologies and services – from the perspective of innovation and technology management.

Dehns is delighted to announce that Lauren Palmer, a paralegal in Dehns’ Oxford office, has been named as a finalist in the patent category of The National Paralegal Awards taking place next month.  Lauren has been a part of the Dehns team for three and a half years as a patent paralegal and has proved herself to be invaluable in her role, providing outstanding client service, highly developed commercial and legal awareness, and incredible attention to detail.

Dehns is delighted to have successfully retained its Tier 1 ranking in the Patent Prosecution category of the latest Managing Intellectual Property (MIP) IP Stars research survey. Our Trade Mark Group also retained its ranking in the Trade Mark Prosecution category.

We’re delighted to announce that Dehns recently won the Gold Award for “Best European IP Firm: Patent Prosecution” at the 2022 International Legal Alliance Summit.

Global warming is amongst the most pressing concerns that we are facing as a society today – urgent and significant action is needed to address the issue.  Intellectual property laws, by granting temporary exclusive rights over the products of intellectual activity, have the power to influence and control innovative products and ideas and their availability. It is therefore important that intellectual property rights be used to their full potential to drive positive developments in green technologies.

Dehns client achieves world-first, making a vital step towards designing a projectile fusion power plant.

Dehns is delighted to announce the promotion of several of our attorneys, effective from 1 April 2022.

Dehns is delighted to have successfully retained its Tier 1 ranking in the PATMA: Patent Attorneys category of the latest The Legal 500 rankings. Our Trade Mark Group also retained its ranking in the PATMA: Trade Mark category.

Dehns is delighted to have retained its ranking in the 2022 WTR (World Trademark Review) 1000 report, with four individuals in the team being named as “Recommended Individuals”.

The shocking invasion of Ukraine has deeply horrified and saddened us all at Dehns. Our thoughts are with the Ukrainian people bravely resisting the invasion and everyone suffering as a result of it. We stand with everyone working to end this conflict swiftly and peacefully and we are giving financial support to organisations who are mobilising to bring aid to those affected.

In the recently launched Patent 1000 IAM 2022 edition, Dehns was named as a “potent player in the European patent prosecution space” and was highlighted as being “particularly good at EPO oppositions”.

The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced its usual biannual increase in the official fees charged for European patent applications, which will take effect from 1 April 2022.

Dehns has today announced the appointment of its first female Senior Partner, Elizabeth Jones.

Elizabeth joined Dehns in 1993 and was made Partner in 2001. She holds several Chemistry and Biochemistry related degrees and is a senior member of Dehns’ Life Sciences and Biotechnology group. Elizabeth has served as Dehns’ Managing Partner since 2014.

The Enlarged Board of Appeal considers whether oral proceedings by video conference will remain the default at the EPO, even when it becomes possible to hold oral proceedings in person.

Dehns is delighted to have successfully retained its Band 1 ranking in the Intellectual Property: Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys category of the latest Chambers rankings.

We’re furthering our sustainability commitment by becoming Planet Mark certified through measuring and reducing our carbon footprint.