intellectualproperty

Friday, 28 May 2021 saw a first in Oral Proceedings at the European Patent Office with the live streaming of…

At the end of the Brexit transition period the UKIPO created comparable UK rights for all EU registrations and EU…

The Coronavirus pandemic and Brexit may have caused an, albeit temporary, double whammy of business uncertainty, but important commercial opportunities…

One of the world’s leading trade mark professionals – and home-grown talent – Catherine Wiseman, is celebrating 25 years at…

2020 was not the easiest year for the aerospace industry. It is said that necessity is the mother of invention,…

The disappearance of blue Smarties® was a hammer blow that echoed through the mid-noughties. Nestlé®, reacting to fears that artificial…

Graphene was once described as a “rising star on the horizon of materials science”, and since then has been the…

To receive patent protection an invention needs to be, among other things, new. This would normally stop an existing product…

Although patent systems around the world vary in their approach to patentability, one common requirement is that an invention must…

With so many of 2020’s headlines focussed on Covid and Brexit we can be forgiven for letting an important anniversary…

As part of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly finding its way into virtually every part…

Some technical revolutions perforate into our lives without fanfare, gradually being incorporated into business infrastructure until they are considered to…