FemTech

As the FemTech industry experiences significant growth in addressing the needs of women’s health, innovations are rapidly emerging to tackle the gender health gap through advanced technologies and interdisciplinary approaches.

This women-centric focus highlights previously unmet needs and supports the drive for tailored healthcare solutions. However, addressing specific conditions such as menstrual health, reproductive technology, and female oncology presents its challenges, making it imperative to develop culturally sensitive, reliable methods for diverse subpopulations of women, ensuring accessibility and efficacy of emerging technologies.

HGF’s accomplished FemTech team are experts in patent drafting, prosecution, appeals, FTO and infringement opinions, and litigation for large corporate firms, SMEs, universities, and overseas associates. Often working with experts in developmental biology, microbiome technologies, and big data technology companies, our attorneys, with backgrounds in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Electronics, Engineering, and Trade Marks, blend specialist knowledge with critical insights into rapidly evolving FemTech solutions.

We are dedicated to empowering women through innovation, ensuring that intellectual property protection generates new revenue streams, creating substantial business value, and attracting investors.

Latest updates

Innovation protection recovery begins in the Aircraft Engine Sector

With patent filing data for 2022 now available, we follow up our January 2023 article with an IP review update for the major players in the aircraft engine sector. Filing …

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Supreme Court holds that SKY marks were registered in bad faith

In a long-awaited judgment https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2021-0181-judgment.pdf, the Supreme Court allowed Skykick’s appeal, agreeing with the High Court that well-known broadcaster, Sky applied for a number of SKY marks in bad faith.  This …

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Agritech Thymes: The EPO Looks at the Morality and Patentability of Therapeutics Derived from Traditional Knowledge

This case (T2510/181) heard before the Technical Boards of Appeal at the EPO in May 2024 relates to the morality and novelty of substances of a natural origin. The invention …

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HGF Wins Benelux Trade Mark Attorney Firm of the Year at Global IP Awards 2024!

We are delighted to announce that HGF has been awarded with the prestigious Benelux Trade Mark Attorney Firm of the Year Award at the 2024 Global IP Awards, which took …

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Can Patent Box Help Keep The Lights On?

The UK energy sector is undergoing a transformative shift, with innovations in renewable energy, carbon capture, and advanced drilling technologies driving progress. Patent Box, a tax relief scheme introduced in …

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Agritech Thymes: Exploring the Agritech IP landscape – past trends and future insights

The agrifood patent landscape analysis recently reported by WIPO provides interesting insights into key areas of innovation and the IP strategies being adopted. The agrifood industry, encompassing both agritech and …

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Agritech Thymes: One of Europe’s oldest grape plant variety rights is invalidated

The Italian courts recently heard a case of infringement of a Plant Variety Right (PVR) held by Sun World International LLC protecting the Sugraone grape variety and of the corresponding …

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Patents and AI – An interview with ChatGPT

It is almost beyond doubt that AI is going to have a significant impact on our lives and industries. The field of intellectual property will not be exempt from this. …

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If you would like to discuss how HGF could help you, contact one of our femtech specialists.