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John Addiss - May 19, 2025 Can wearable devices help public health? It is estimated that between 33% and 50% of UK adults own a wearable device such as a smartwatch. ...
Darena Slavova - May 8, 2025 Guardians of the Deep: Innovations in Monitoring and Protecting Seabed Infrastructure Beneath the surface of the world's oceans lies a vast and essential network of infrastructure that ...
Rachel Oxley - April 16, 2025 From bean to bar: innovation, industry 4.0, and the role of intellectual property in chocolate production Chocolate may be one of the world’s oldest indulgences, but the technologies behind its production ...
Jack Davies - April 11, 2025 An integrated quantum hub for integrating quantum devices At an event in Edinburgh on Wednesday, the Integrated Quantum Networks (IQN) Hub was formally ...
Harry Westhead - April 10, 2025 AI: A Catalyst For Fusion? Right now, we’re in the middle of an AI boom. Healthcare, agriculture, e-commerce, software ...
Simon Kremer - March 25, 2025 HutanBio: algae is the fuel of the future Algae converts sunlight and carbon dioxide into flammable hydrocarbons, offering a like-for-like ...
Joshua Tall - March 21, 2025 Quantum Tech Down Under This week, Quantum Australia announced Petra Andrén has been appointed as its new CEO. Established ...
Joanna Smith - February 27, 2025 How AI is Shaping the Future of MedTech - a new special report We are delighted to release our latest report How AI is Shaping the Future of MedTech. View the ...
Alex Savin - February 20, 2025 Communication & policy: the next arena for fusion’s future? Much of the discussion around the commercial future for nuclear fusion has revolved around sharing ...
James Leach - February 17, 2025 Software IP – A Lunch and Learn Seminar for Startups and SMEs, Wednesday 19 March 2025 Join us for an insightful seminar at the Greater Manchester Digital Security Hub (DiSH), where ...
Isobel Stone - February 3, 2025 Next-Generation Wound Care: Smart Materials and Technologies Transforming Healing Millions of people around the world suffer from chronic wounds, traumatic injuries, and surgical ...
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Eliot Ward - January 13, 2025 UPC Weekly - Alexion v Samsung & Amgen – Patentee’s attempted U-turn on claim interpretation foiled by UPC Court of Appeal 2025 Week 2 Tailoring one’s claim interpretation for the jurisdiction at hand can be a canny way of ...
Matthew Naylor - January 6, 2025 UPC Weekly - UPC transparency by numbers 2025 Week 1 How easy is it to get hold of documents from UPC cases? The easy answer “it depends” is ...
Simon Parry - January 6, 2025 Cat Savage: how to get women building ships Catriona Savage, the first female president of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, is ...
Matthew Naylor - December 30, 2025 UPC Weekly - Pay to play at the UPC 2024 Week 52 Both Apple and Google have recently succeeded in persuading the UPC Local Division ...
Alessio Incitti - December 19, 2024 Show me the money (and the explanation): eXplainable AI in finance The AI assurance market in the UK is experiencing rapid growth, with an estimated 524 firms ...
Alex Savin - December 18, 2024 Tokamak Energy: ‘We’ll have fusion energy by 2034’ A fusion energy pilot plant will be up and running in ten years, says Tokamak Energy chairman Chris ...
Matthew Naylor - December 16, 2024 UPC Weekly - The 9 second rule at the UPC 2024 Week 50 Does it matter who gets to the doors of the UPC first? Does it matter if you get there ...
Joshua Tall - December 11, 2024 Quantum Navigation: Revolutionising Maritime and Autonomous Vessel Technology For thousands of years people have looked to the sky to navigate their way around the Earth. In the ...
Matthew Naylor - December 9, 2024 UPC Weekly - Very appealing – preliminary injunction overturned 2024 Week 49 SharkNinja have managed to persuade the UPC Court of Appeal to overturn a preliminary ...
James Leach - December 5, 2024 Protecting Copyright Holders In The Age Of AI In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the training data that fuels AI ...
Matthew Naylor - December 2, 2024 UPC Weekly - Front-loading and obviousness at the UPC 2024 Week 48 In NJOY v VMR, the UPC Central Division Paris revoked VMR’s patent EP 3456214 B2 on 27 ...
Matthew Naylor - November 25, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC finds infringement using a doctrine of equivalents 2024 Week 47 Back in June 2024 (UPC Weekly 2024 week 23), we set out a few “known unknowns” – ...
Matthew Naylor - November 18, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC dials up the advantages for patentees 2024 Week 46 We report this week on two new UPC decisions that make the UPC an even more attractive ...
Darena Slavova - November 15, 2024 Commercialising IP to fuel the fusion revolution The race for fusion energy is on, but it’s not a sprint. Fusion energy is not expected to enter the ...
Alex Savin - November 12, 2024 ‘Small’ Nuclear – the solution for Big Data? The growth of AI is set to explode data centre power demand by the end of the decade, according to ...
Matthew Naylor - November 11, 2024 UPC Weekly - NJOY duel with Juul 2024 Week 45 5 November 2024 saw two decisions handed down by the UPC Paris Central Division (CD) ...
Kara Quast - November 7, 2024 Large Language Models in Robotics Progress in training large language models (LLMs) in the last few years for natural language ...
Matthew Naylor - November 4, 2024 UPC Weekly - All of the fizz and none of the squeeze 2024 Week 44 SodaStream v Aarke is a decision on the merits of an infringement case based on EP ...
Matthew Naylor - October 28, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC confirms approach to inventive step for life science inventions 2024 Week 43 10x Genomics and NanoString have been duking it out at the UPC since the court opened ...
Matthew Naylor - October 21, 2024 UPC Weekly - Light emitting diode patent falls into a black hole of invalidity 2024 Week 42 Last week we did a deep dive into some LED technology to explain the decision of the ...
Joanna Smith - October 17, 2024 Chambers & Partners 2025 legal guide - Band 1 We are proud to have once again been ranked Band 1 (gold) in Chambers & Partners 2025 legal ...
Matthew Naylor - October 14, 2024 UPC Weekly - A pro-patent decision on infringement and validity 2024 Week 41 This week we report on Seoul Viosys v Expert Klein, a full decision on infringement ...
Charlotte Lynch - October 9, 2024 Saving the Planet from Space: the UK-based space companies combatting climate change Space and Climate Change is the theme of this year’s World Space Week. According to the World Space ...
Tom Furnival - October 8, 2024 Most opposed medical device companies at the EPO 2023 Following on from our recent post on the Most Opposed Companies at the EPO 2023 we’ve broken that ...
Niles Beadman - October 7, 2024 Battery Manufacturing: Funding the Future In September, the US Department of Energy announced the latest round of funding to electrify the ...
Matthew Naylor - October 7, 2024 UPC Weekly - Costs: the UPC’s Big Lever 2024 Week 40 This week we report on a UPC Court of Appeal decision that focuses only on costs, and ...
Amelia Sloan - October 4, 2024 A new horizon for quantum research in the UK or merely a shiny rebrand for an incoming government? The levels of investment in quantum technologies are changing rapidly all the time. In 2022, ...
Joanna Smith - October 2, 2024 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2025 We are extremely proud to once again be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in ...
Matthew Naylor - September 30, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Court of Appeal digs into the detail in a new preliminary injunction case 2024 Week 39 Outdoor equipment makers Ortovox and Mammut are locked in a UPC battle about avalanche ...
Matthew Naylor - September 23, 2024 UPC Weekly - The first UPC SEP injunction 2024 Week 38 On 13 September 2024, the UPC Munich Local Division handed down its decision in the ...
Katherine Green - September 17, 2024 Most opposed companies at the EPO 2023 The European Patent Office grants about 100,000 patents per year (EPO Statistics here). The grant ...
Charlotte Lynch - September 17, 2024 How could NASA tech benefit postmenopausal women? Over 14,000 postmenopausal women in England may benefit from the recent approval of new ...
Matthew Naylor - September 16, 2024 UPC Weekly - Clearing the way can lead to UPC bifurcation and language complexities 2024 Week 37 Let’s say that you are a company based outside Europe and intend to launch a new ...
Matthew Naylor - September 9, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC preliminary injunctions – a top-up 2024 Week 36 Just two weeks ago we reviewed UPC case law on preliminary injunctions (PIs), giving ...
Andrew Fearnside - September 2, 2024 Phasecraft: the pioneer in quantum software The Bristol and London company, which has recently opened an office in Washington DC, is a world ...
Lucy Coe - September 2, 2024 UPC Weekly - Let’s brake for a minute, and talk about Tesla 2024 Week 35 Last week saw two decisions handed down from the UPC Local Divisions as part of ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - August 27, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Preliminary Injunctions – Background, Trends and Lessons Learned 2024 Week 34 No-one wants to be on the receiving end of a UPC preliminary injunction. The tussles ...
Matthew Naylor - August 19, 2024 UPC Weekly - Revisiting transparency of UPC proceedings 2024 Week 33 The UPC has been doing a lot of stuff right. Litigators praise the preparedness of the ...
Emma Graham - August 14, 2024 King’s Speech: AI implications for IP Featuring in The Patent Lawyer Magazine, Emma Graham explores what the King's Speech said about AI, ...
Sean Jauss - August 12, 2024 UPC Weekly - Now let’s talk about saisies 2024 Week 32 There is no discovery at the UPC.
Matthew Naylor - August 5, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC revocation versus EPO opposition – playing out in not-so-slow-mo 2024 Week 31 What happens when you have the same parties fighting over revocation of the same ...
Andrew Mears - August 1, 2024 Navigating the Dual Pathways: Regulatory Approval and Patent Protection for Medical Devices For medical device manufacturers and designers, the journey to market success hinges on two crucial ...
Matthew Naylor - July 29, 2024 UPC Weekly - Where’s your UPC off-ramp? 2024 Week 30 Every litigator needs to have a clear view of the possible routes out of litigation. ...
Thomas Wolter - July 22, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Munich Central Division sets out a marker on how the UPC should approach inventive step 2024 Week 29 This week saw the first UPC decision on the merits issued in the long-running patent ...
Matthew Naylor - July 15, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Local Divisions - the reluctant bifurcators 2024 Week 28 This week we look at how the UPC is handling requests to split substantive ...
Matthew Naylor - July 8, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC overturns EPO opposition division decision on the same prior art 2024 Week 27 In the race to be the first UPC division to produce a written decision on a main ...
Joshua Tall - July 5, 2024 Quantum Technology in Denmark Mewburn Ellis is excited to announce that we now have a part-time office at The BioInnovation ...
Matthew Naylor - July 1, 2024 UPC Weekly - Three month delay fatal for a preliminary injunction application 2024 Week 26 On 3 June 2024, the UPC Local Division in Hamburg decided to refuse a preliminary ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - June 28, 2024 Living with artificial intelligence: can the law cope? As part of our Thought Leaders series, we explore the copyright issues arising from AI-generated ...
Matthew Naylor - June 24, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC uses EPO approach to added subject matter 2024 Week 25 There was lots of UPC news to hold the interest this week but for me the standout was ...
Matthew Naylor - June 17, 2024 UPC Weekly - Opting-out from the UPC: the Who, the When and the Why 2024 Week 24 It seems like a long time ago now, but from March to May 2023, the “sunrise period” of ...
Matthew Naylor - June 10, 2024 UPC Weekly - Three Known Unknowns at the UPC 2024 Week 23 It’s a bit risky to write a blog where you hope it will go out of date quickly. But ...
Sean Jauss - June 3, 2024 1st Anniversary of the UPC – some stats! The Unified Patent Court (UPC) celebrated its first anniversary on 1 June 2024. The Court is busy. ...
Matthew Naylor - June 3, 2024 UPC Weekly - Should we stay or should we go on? 2024 Week 22 This week we report on the UPC revocation action in Bitzer v. Carrier and the related ...
Camille Terfve - May 31, 2024 How data changed our understanding and care of breast cancer Breast cancer does not only affect women, but it mostly affects them1. Breast cancer is the most ...
Matthew Naylor - May 28, 2024 UPC Weekly - Let’s talk about costs 2024 Week 21 This week we focus how the UPC is dealing with requests for security for costs and the ...
Simon Parry - May 20, 2024 Electric ships are here. But how to charge them? Ports need to supply ships with megawatts of power to charge in under two hours. The BlueStor ...
Matthew Naylor - May 20, 2024 UPC Weekly - UPC Court of Appeal confirms their own case law on claim interpretation but sidesteps question of file wrapper estoppel 2024 Week 20 The UPC Court of Appeal have issued another decision on a preliminary injunction – ...
Alex Burns - May 16, 2024 English Courts consider the patentability of AI My colleague, Rebecca Frith and I viewed the Court of Appeal hearing in the Emotional Perception AI ...
Matthew Naylor - May 13, 2024 UPC Weekly - High bar to challenge the jurisdiction of the UPC 2024 Week 19 This week saw the UPC issue two decisions about its own jurisdiction. Where a ...
Matthew Naylor - May 7, 2024 UPC Weekly - Preliminary injunctions at the UPC – get your defence ready 2024 Week 18 This week we look at a recent UPC first instance decision for a preliminary ...
Joanna Smith - May 1, 2024 Our clients are at the heart of our Trade Mark business We are delighted to release our latest brochure 'Our clients are at the heart of our Trade Mark ...
Matthew Naylor - April 29, 2024 UPC Weekly - Battling the Biosimilars: opt-outs, preliminary injunctions & protective letters 2024 Week 17 This week we delve into the details of the first two UPC disputes involving ...
Eleanor Maciver - April 26, 2024 Cleantech Commercialisation Report: Highlights and Trends Today (26 April 2024) the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) ...
Camille Terfve - April 26, 2024 The brilliant dawn of AI drug discovery Computer simulations are solving challenges previously thought uncrackable.
Andrew Mears - April 26, 2024 Medical devices: Insights through IP - new report 2024 We are delighted to release our latest report Medical devices: Insights through IP which looks at ...
Matthew Naylor - April 22, 2024 UPC Weekly - Language of proceedings at the UPC 2024 Week 16 This week we focus on the language of proceedings at the UPC, considering when the ...
Matthew Naylor - April 15, 2024 UPC Weekly - Time-dependent transparency of UPC proceedings? 2024 Week 15 The week saw the Court of Appeal issue its decision on public access to court file ...
Matthew Naylor - April 10, 2024 UPC Weekly - Mind your costs 2024 Week 14 The UPC Court of Appeal issued a collection of five appeal decisions on 3 April 2024 ...
Matthew Naylor - April 3, 2024 Public access to UPC proceedings When the UPC was set up, a basic tenet was set out in Article 45 of the UPC Agreement, that the ...
Jan Rether - March 28, 2024 Design rights can build IP protection, EU Lego ruling shows Featuring in Law360, Christoph Moeller explores the recent EU Lego ruling and how it serves as a ...
Thomas Lonsdale - March 22, 2024 From grass to graphene: could methane answer the call for rising nanomaterial demand? Methane, the principal component in natural gas, accounts for approximately a third of the ...
Callum Anderson - March 13, 2024 Can AI help to improve the biopsy process for patients? In medicine, a biopsy is a procedure that involves taking a small sample of body tissue so it can ...
Lucy Coe - March 11, 2024 Challenging patents and other clearance actions in Europe Whether it is to remove a current infringement threat, clear the way to reduce the risk in ...
Daniel Brodsky - March 8, 2024 Robotics in surgery For many, the word ‘surgery’ suggests images of surgeons operating with handheld instruments ...
Andrew Fearnside - March 6, 2024 Inside Silicon Quantum Computing: an interview with Komal Pahwa Senior IP counsel Komal Pahwa reveals how Australia's star quantum startup is building a silicon ...
Callum Anderson - March 6, 2024 Laparoscopic AI AI in the OR Copying music, making bad art and training the next generation of surgeons, just some ...
David Brooks - February 27, 2024 Graphene Medtech: The Next Frontier It has been 20 years since Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov first isolated graphene: the two ...
Tom Furnival - February 14, 2024 The major players in the SEP landscape in Europe Next in our series of blogs, we have investigated the major players in the SEP landscape in Europe.
Callum Anderson - February 13, 2024 Advances in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive technique for imaging inside of the body. It ...
Sarah Harvey - January 31, 2024 Hydrogels in sustainable agriculture As we move into 2024, the agricultural sector is being driven by the urgent need to address global ...
Thomas Lonsdale - January 30, 2024 Plant based leather - the eco-friendly alternative hitting the catwalks Vegan leather isn’t only an ecofriendly alternative, which isn’t made from animals. It’s also being ...
Emily Lythell - January 26, 2024 Gouda vibes only – AI cooks up vegan meat and cheese alternatives The Kraft Heinz Company has recently introduced three new vegan sliced cheese varieties in the ...
Joe Egelstaff - January 16, 2024 AI bias in healthcare AI tools are increasingly being used in healthcare settings, with applications ranging from ...
Sophie Chua - January 16, 2024 Gigafactories & IP: Protecting the processes that power the future As the use of electric vehicles (EVs) becomes increasingly prevalent, demand for batteries is set ...
Alex Savin - January 8, 2024 Nuclear Fusion: A Case Study in the need for a cohesive IP Strategy at the forefront of science Following on the continued success in inertial confinement research reported from the National ...
David Brooks - December 20, 2023 UK Battery Strategy Commentary Ahead of the Global Investment Summit hosted recently in November 2023 at Hampton Court Palace, the ...
Joseph Newcombe - December 19, 2023 The Royal Institution's new mission With 1.4 million subscribers on YouTube, the organisation is finding new ways to enthuse the ...
Callum Anderson - December 19, 2023 Gazing into the future of augmented reality glasses Augmented reality (AR) sits between virtual reality (VR) and the real world.
Tom Furnival - December 19, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? – Part 3 This article continues our series of blogs investigating whether or not declaring your patent or ...
Ben Boyd - December 19, 2023 Sailing cargo You might question why an IP firm concerned with innovation is writing about the use of sails in ...
David Brooks - December 5, 2023 Layering up: how graphene is disrupting the sportswear industry Earlier this year, Novak Djokovic broke the men’s tennis record for the most Grand Slam tournament ...
Ben Boyd - December 5, 2023 Ballast-free ships While this blog is about ballast-free ships, it is important to understand why cargo ships require ...
Sarah Morrow - November 29, 2023 What is Graphene? For an undergraduate scientist, the answer to the question “What is graphene?” is perhaps all ...
Niles Beadman - November 28, 2023 Invention Capture: 5 Steps to Success - Transforming Technology to Patent Protection Invention capturing, also referred to as invention harvesting or invention mining, is the start of ...
Alex Burns - November 28, 2023 Emotional Perception AI v UKIPO: Is this the dawning of a new era for AI-related inventions at the UKIPO? On 21 November 2023, Mann J handed down his judgment on Emotional Perception AI Ltd v ...
Ben Boyd - November 23, 2023 Tidal energy Most people are aware that the moon (and to a lesser extent the sun), exert a gravitational pull on ...
Emily Lloyd - November 17, 2023 Latest Medtech developments in the race to help diabetes sufferers November is National Diabetes Awareness month and, in this blog, we are discussing the latest ...
Ben Boyd - November 14, 2023 Salinity gradient power In this series on capturing energy from the ocean we’ve recently discussed wave power, tidal power ...
Jacqueline Murphy - November 8, 2023 Validating European patents outside Europe - the Validation State system We are pleased to launch our latest report Validating European patents outside Europe - the ...
Ben Boyd - November 7, 2023 Is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion a sustainable way forward? We’ve previously discussed how energy can be captured directly from the movement of the waves on ...
Joe Egelstaff - November 6, 2023 Total artificial hearts: creating the perfect pump Cardiovascular disease is estimated to account for 45% of deaths in Europe each year. More ...
Simon Parry - October 19, 2023 Major developments in the UK offshore wind farm industry October has been a busy and exciting month for offshore wind news in the United Kingdom.
Joanna Smith - October 19, 2023 Chambers & Partners 2024 legal guide - Band 1 We are proud to have once again been ranked Band 1 (gold) in Chambers & Partners 2024 legal ...
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Sean Jauss - September 29, 2023 Beware the front-loaded procedure! The Unified Patent Court (‘UPC’) opened its doors on 1 June 2023. It is a new court in the European ...
Tom Furnival - September 20, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? – Part 2 This article is the latest in a series of blogs exploring whether declaring your patent or ...
Matthew Smith - September 8, 2023 Trends in Graphene IP – a refresh Last year, we delved into the data to see how the number of patent publications coming out had ...
David Brooks - September 6, 2023 Graphene: permeating the hydrogen economy The growth of the so-called “hydrogen economy” is crucial to achieving net-zero carbon emissions ...
David Brooks - September 6, 2023 IP audits for battery and energy storage businesses Companies working in the fields of batteries and energy storage often have a wealth of intellectual ...
Simon Parry - August 23, 2023 Is the future in the wind? Pyxis Ocean sets sail! This week we have seen the bulk carrier Pyxis Ocean set sail (literally!) for the first time with ...
Andrew Fearnside - August 21, 2023 The world beyond quantum computing Infleqtion is developing the next generation of quantum tools, including clocks, gravimeters and ...
Fynn McLennan - August 21, 2023 Silicon anodes: where are we now? In 2020, we wrote about some of the approaches being taken to develop viable silicon-based anodes. ...
Tom Furnival - August 10, 2023 UPC as a forum for SEP disputes – Panasonic kick off proceedings With the UPC opening its doors just over two months’ ago, the IP profession has been keenly ...
Alex Savin - August 9, 2023 Nuclear fusion breakthrough raises hope for limitless clean energy A research team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California USA has reportedly ...
Niles Beadman - August 8, 2023 Superconductor sparks excitement, but meets resistance The last few weeks have seen the rise of an unlikely social media star – the claimed ...
Tom Furnival - August 7, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? This article is the latest in a series of blogs exploring whether declaring your patent or ...
Thomas Lonsdale - July 31, 2023 Green Aviation – Ready for Take off! In 2022 aviation accounted for ca. 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, with around 800 Mt ...
Jacqueline Murphy - July 18, 2023 Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the UKIPO’s “Green Channel” We are pleased to launch our latest report Does Green IP mean go? Exploring acceleration under the ...
Thomas Wolter - July 6, 2023 Beating the Punch: UPC Protective Letters The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is now operational. As of June 1, 2023, patentees can enforce ...
Sean Jauss - July 5, 2023 Litigation in the Unified Patent Court (UPC) The UPC is a new European patent litigation court. It will provide a single forum for the ...
Ben Boyd - July 5, 2023 Big Data in Maritime transport Big data has been a big thing for most of the last decade, yet its importance in industry continues ...
Sean Jauss - June 27, 2023 UPC Administrative Committee approves Milan as host of the third Central Division court The UPC Administrative Committee has announced that Milan will host the third seat of the UPC’s ...
Rob Walker - June 7, 2023 World Ocean Day 2023 – Turning the Tide on Ocean Pollution 8 June 2023 marks the 21st World Ocean Day, which, in the words of The Ocean Project, has a mission ...
Daniel Brodsky - May 23, 2023 Team Bath Racing Electric enters driverless car race at Silverstone Team Bath Racing Electric is set to hit the track at Formula Student 2023, including the Dynamic ...
Andrew Mears - May 15, 2023 Medtech: the future for mental health? When we think of medical technology, or ‘medtech’, more often than not we think about systems or ...
Alex Burns - May 5, 2023 Gene sequencing accelerates with custom hardware The cost to sequence a genome continues to drop exponentially. Over the past 20 years, the cost to ...
Rob Walker - May 2, 2023 The History of Hydrofoils Since their introduction into the America’s Cup boats in 2013, hydrofoils have become familiar to ...
Thea Toutoungy - April 21, 2023 The lithium rush: an unsustainable approach to sustainability? In recent years, the world has seen the significant consequences of our continued heavy dependence ...
Jacqueline Murphy - April 19, 2023 Operating in the circular economy: From idea to Business – our co-hosted event with Oxfordshire Greentech On Wednesday 22 March, we were delighted to co-host an in-person event with Oxfordshire Greentech ...
Ben Boyd - April 17, 2023 Offshore winds blow against Siemens Late last year Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S was unsuccessful in asserting infringement of ...
Ben Boyd - April 14, 2023 Patents at sea Patents are a territorial right. A UK patent provides you with a monopoly right for your claimed ...
Tom Furnival - April 13, 2023 Does declaring your patent or application as “essential to a standard” influence the outcome of that patent or application in Europe? This blog is the first in a series in which we explore standards essential patents using patent ...
Rob Walker - April 12, 2023 Blowing bubbles to cut drag and clean up shipping If someone told you their latest invention was a bubble blowing device, you might think that they ...
Ben Boyd - March 21, 2023 Motion of the ocean - Wave energy converters The ocean covers 70% of the earth’s surface, so it is no wonder there is a significant attention at ...
Paul Dunne - March 21, 2023 Reborn! How a radical process will be able to give new life to unwanted boats There are around a million boats in the UK and eventually they will all need to be recycled. The ...
Jacqueline Murphy - March 14, 2023 Femtech: a growth industry - new special report We are delighted to release our latest report Femtech: a growth industry.
Alex Burns - March 2, 2023 Can an AI win copyright protection? As part of our Thought Leaders series, we explore artificial intelligence and copyright. Forward: ...
Dan Thornton - February 20, 2023 The world’s toughest sports earbuds Tom Jelliffe is the founder of ultra-durable earphones brand Tzuka. Here’s how he took his concept ...
Christopher Casley - February 9, 2023 AI and Tech innovation stands out in a slow year for pharma deals Last year saw a drop in the number and value of deals performed in the biotech and pharma sector ...
Callum Anderson - February 3, 2023 Getting to grips with device led physical rehabilitation innovation In the UK, there are an estimated 187,000 children living with an arm disability, and 85 million ...
Emma Graham - February 1, 2023 Should I file third party observations? A study of the consequences of filing third party observations (TPOs) in the MedTech sector and the ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 30, 2023 Battery insights & IP trends - new special report We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest special report Battery insights & IP ...
Lucy Coe - January 30, 2023 Can AI and IOT support environmental sustainability Advances in software-based technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and The Internet of ...
Jack Davies - January 20, 2023 Quantum sensors in space: measuring a warming world with cold atoms Space-borne sensors serve a variety of purposes that are all but essential to our daily lives, from ...
Andrew Fearnside - December 15, 2022 The state of quantum Quantum chips are sparking into life. But what is this hardware going to be used for?
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Rob Walker - December 5, 2022 Repurpose our rigs! Platforms for climate tech 2022 saw the end of one of the UK’s largest, and possibly most bizarre, public art exhibitions – an ...
Jack Davies - November 30, 2022 David Deutsch – making more sense than common sense “Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.” — ...
Jacqueline Murphy - November 29, 2022 Patent Litigation Trends in England & Wales - new report We are delighted to release our latest report Patent Litigation Trends in England and Wales.
David Brooks - November 24, 2022 Graphene: the commercial disrupter Graphene has generated a tremendous amount of excitement since it was first isolated at the ...
Rob Walker - November 4, 2022 Ocean-based carbon dioxide removal is making a splash COP27 commences on 6th November 2022 and one of the key items on the agenda will be the rules ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 25, 2022 Top Tier in Chambers & Partners 2023 legal guide We are proud to have once again been ranked Band 1 (gold) in Chambers & Partners 2023 legal ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 25, 2022 Graphene: patenting a wonder material Our Special Report Graphene: patenting a wonder material examines graphene-related patent ...
Darena Slavova - October 20, 2022 On track for net-zero railway: Hitachi’s Blues Train In 1825 George Stephenson’s Locomotion took 450 people 25 miles from Darlington to Stockton at 15 ...
James Leach - October 19, 2022 AI at the UKIPO – a more patent friendly approach? The UKIPO recently issued new guidance relating to examining patent applications relating to ...
Camille Terfve - October 17, 2022 Bioinformatics at the UK IPO – what does the new Guidance mean for applicants? As recently publicised, the UK IPO recently issued new guidance relating to examining patent ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 14, 2022 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2023 We are extremely proud to be ranked tier one for our patent and trade mark practices in the 2023 ...
Maria Hall - October 14, 2022 Robert Watson elected President of FICPI’s Study and Work Committee Partner Robert Watson was elected President of FICPI’s Study and Work Committee (Commission d'Etude ...
Rachel Oxley - October 5, 2022 AI-enabled sensor provides early warning for postpartum haemorrhage Australian start-up Baymatob combines an array of sensors with artificial intelligence to identify ...
Jack Davies - September 27, 2022 Post quantum cryptography – The Final Frontier We have previously reported on the ongoing search by the National Institute of Standards and ...
James Leach - September 26, 2022 Obtaining patent protection for software inventions can be challenging - but we can help New developments in software are continuing to change the world we live in at a rapid pace. Patent ...
Rob Walker - August 22, 2022 The long road to safer micro-mobility June 2022 marked the first anniversary of the introduction of e-scooters in London as part of the ...
Charlotte Lynch - August 16, 2022 Standards, SEPs, and FRAND agreements - an overview The terms “standards,” “SEPs,” and “FRAND agreements,” are increasingly being mentioned in the ...
James Leach - August 12, 2022 The firepower of Cloud Native thinking Taylor Dolezal of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation explains why the tech industry reveres this ...
Richard Johnson - August 8, 2022 IP as an enabler for AI: UK government shows its hand The recently published response of the UK government to a consultation on the interface between ...
Charlotte Lynch - August 8, 2022 The FemTech revolution: providing much-needed menopause care High quality menopause care has the potential to significantly improve women’s lives. Fortunately, ...
Callum Anderson - July 8, 2022 MRI-Guided Therapy Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce ...
Andrew Mears - June 23, 2022 Robotic-assisted surgery: from fiction to reality and beyond It’s a notable feature of (my favourite) Sci-Fi movies, that they tend to include some sort of ...
Maria Hall - June 16, 2022 Mewburn Ellis advises creators of Goodwood 2022 record breaker IP firm advises the company behind the Spéirling electric hypercar which has just beaten the ...
Simon Parry - June 10, 2022 Our goal is to build the world’s fastest electric car Elizabeth Maclennan developed a love of speed at Mewburn Ellis-sponsored Team Bath Racing Electric. ...
Simon Parry - May 25, 2022 Meet the team: Simon Parry, Partner, Patent Attorney, Engineering, Manchester As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Simon Parry about his journey to becoming a ...
Emma Graham - May 18, 2022 Meet the team: Emma Graham, Partner, Patent Attorney, Engineering, London As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Emma Graham about her journey to becoming a ...
Charlotte Lynch - May 12, 2022 Femtech: Rich on innovation, short on funding The UK has the largest female health gap in the G20. A “female health gap” refers to women being in ...
Stephen Gill - May 11, 2022 Meet the Team: Stephen Gill, Partner, Patent Attorney, Engineering, Cambridge As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Stephen Gill about his journey to becoming a ...
James Leach - May 11, 2022 Talking with machines: AI, language, and cognition “A reader lives a thousand lives before they die”. From Homer to Sophocles, Shakespeare to Orwell, ...
Sarah Harvey - May 10, 2022 Vertical farming - finding space to sprout up One thing the past couple of years have taught a lot of people is that global supply chains can be ...
Andrew Fearnside - May 5, 2022 UK Government expands R&D Tax Relief to cover Quantum, AI and Robotics research The recently published 2022 Spring Statement1 indicates support for a “new culture of enterprise” ...
Urs Ferber - April 14, 2022 Germany’s world-leading MedTech industry Germany is synonymous with precision engineering and quality manufacturing, so it comes as no ...
Andrew Fearnside - April 7, 2022 The NISQ-era: a quantum stepping-stone In our previous blog, ‘Noisy quantum computing: overcoming quantum decoherence’, we discussed how ...
Daniel Brodsky - April 7, 2022 Software for use in medical methods: excluded from patentability? In this blog we look at the challenges associated with patenting software inventions in the context ...
Isobel Stone - April 4, 2022 Powering pacemakers – (don’t) be still, my beating heart Millions of people around the world depend on implanted medical devices, for all sorts of reasons – ...
Andrew Fearnside - March 30, 2022 A trillion times more powerful: the race to produce the world's first quantum computer chip Meet the British startup on the brink of winning the race to produce the world's first ...
Florian Zobel - March 30, 2022 2022 changes to EPO Guidelines: highlights With the 2021 changes to the examination guidelines, the EPO changed its schedule for issuing ...
Rebecca Blundell - March 24, 2022 From bottle to throttle: upcycling plastic waste into the tyre industry In the UK alone 35.8 million plastic bottles are used and discarded every day. And, with ...
Urs Ferber - March 23, 2022 Advances in dentistry making a real impression We all love going to the dentist, especially for restorations like crowns and bridges!
Charlotte Lynch - March 15, 2022 Let’s talk FemTech: the rise of female focussed innovation A surge in new medical technology is emerging from the FemTech sector. “FemTech” refers to ...
Johannes Biniok - March 15, 2022 Has Russia allowed patent theft? In response to a decree issued by the Russian Government[1] on 6 March, various media outlets have ...
Robert Worboys - March 15, 2022 Time to cash out? Will a fully cashless society ever become a reality in the UK? A cashless society describes an economic state whereby financial transactions are entirely ...
Toby Hill - March 11, 2022 Tech giants set up shop in Munich - Europe's answer to Silicon Valley? Arguably best known for its annual Oktoberfest celebrations, Germany’s third largest city which was ...
Robert Worboys - March 7, 2022 Six ways that 3D printing is revolutionising the biomedical industry 3D-Printing is an additive manufacturing process whereby objects are created by depositing ...
Genevieve Pugh - February 17, 2022 Battery materials – sourcing a brighter battery-powered future As demonstrated by the recent COP 26 UN Climate Change conference, the climate crisis is weighing ...
Sophie Chua - February 17, 2022 Taking-off into a cleaner future: composites in the aviation industry As the world gradually returns to its pre-pandemic levels of air travel, the importance of ...
Andrew Mears - February 17, 2022 Meet the client – Creo Medical Creo Medical’s cutting-edge medical devices have several applications, including the treatment of ...
Isobel Stone - February 14, 2022 Composites in construction: building towards a stronger and more sustainable future Composite materials are generally defined as materials produced from two or more constituent ...
Toby Hill - February 9, 2022 AI spotlight: Google’s DeepMind takes on competitive programming – have we reached a tipping point? On 2 February, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, announced that it has ...
Karolina Fryzlewicz - January 27, 2022 AI, IP and SMEs: jurisdictional clues about copyright solutions for start-ups Our world is passing through an era of explosive technological innovation. New technologies are ...
Eliot Ward - January 19, 2022 As the UPC preparatory period begins, the EPO decides to accept UP requests before the full UPC agreement comes into force On 18 January 2022, Austria became the thirteenth EU country to ratify the “protocol on ...
Fynn McLennan - January 10, 2022 Solid-state electrolytes – a firm footing for the future? Innovation must produce sustainable solutions in every area of technology to help the world avert ...
Tom Furnival - December 24, 2021 Board of Appeal confirms DABUS AI cannot be an inventor for a European patent application On 21st December 2021 the EPO rejected the two appeals filed by Dr Thaler concerning whether an ...
Eliot Ward - December 3, 2021 Austrian parliament unanimously passes legislation to allow the practical preparations for the UPC to begin On 2 December 2021, Austria became the thirteenth EU country to pass the “protocol on provisional ...
Alex Burns - November 22, 2021 The smart healthcare revolution – what does it mean for patent attorneys? In 2020 the EPO published a report on the global trends in patent applications for “Fourth ...
Andrew Fearnside - November 17, 2021 Venturing ahead: helping Munich make its name in quantum tech Christopher Trummer, managing director of the TUM Venture Lab Quantum, explains why ...
Robert Worboys - November 16, 2021 Pulse of Fintech H1 ’21 – investments in fintech are growing and diversifying KPMG have recently published their biannual report ‘Pulse of Fintech’, which provides a detailed ...
Camille Terfve - November 12, 2021 Digital therapeutics: the rise of digital health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic There is no denying that the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped many aspects of our lives. Those lucky ...
Sean Jauss - November 12, 2021 LG Chem vs SK Innovation: law & politics in the EV market Sales of electric vehicles are booming. With global stock up from less than 1 million in 2014 to ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 26, 2021 New Green IP Report launched To coincide with the launch of COP26 we have released a new report into Green IP. Our report ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 22, 2021 Chambers & Partners 2022 Legal Guide - Band 1 Recommended Firm We are delighted to have once again been ranked Band 1 in Chambers & Partners 2022 legal guide ...
Christopher Casley - October 21, 2021 A snapshot: Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Christopher Casley gives us an overview of our special report on ...
Sean Jauss - October 11, 2021 Podcast with Nick Hounsfield, Founder, The Wave: surf's up at The Wave We speak to Nick Hounsfield, Founder of The Wave — an inland surfing facility located in Bristol ...
Sam Bailey - October 1, 2021 Intercalation Station: bringing new energy to battery industry reporting This online news channel offers an insider’s viewpoint as it breaks battery industry news and ...
Isobel Stone - October 1, 2021 ‘IP Access’ fund, an extension of the existing UK IPO IP Audits Plus program In 2021, innovation really has been a hot topic, with the government’s Innovation Strategy ...
Jacqueline Murphy - September 30, 2021 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2022 Mewburn Ellis is proud to be ranked top tier for our patent and trade mark practices in the 2022 ...
Tom Furnival - September 24, 2021 Qualcomm unveils world's first 5G, AI-enabled, autonomous drone In their latest offering, the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, Qualcomm are cementing themselves as ...
Richard Johnson - September 22, 2021 DABUS decision: AI cannot be patent inventor, UK Court of Appeal rules On 21 September 2021, the UK Court of Appeal rejected an appeal raised by Dr. Stephen Thaler, who ...
Andrew Mears - September 21, 2021 Sensors and sensibility: Caroline Hargrove CBE eyes up the future of healthtech Years after meeting her as another primary-school parent, Forward editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies ...
Lucy Coe - September 21, 2021 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Things We are at the start of a technological revolution that will fundamentally change the way we live, ...
James Leach - September 15, 2021 Software Inventions: UKIPO and EPO approaches to patent eligibility Special Report Our new Special Report, Software Inventions: UKIPO and EPO approaches to patent eligibility, has ...
Graeme Moore - August 24, 2021 New Innovation Strategy for the UK Last month the UK government launched a new Innovation Strategy, which seems to blend a long-term ...
Andrew Fearnside - August 5, 2021 Quantum System One: is Europe ready? With quantum start-ups now appearing across the globe and tech giants such as IBM edging ever ...
Camille Terfve - August 5, 2021 Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health Special Report Our new Special Report, Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health: a data driven ...
Callum McGuinn - August 4, 2021 Taking charge - electric vehicle battery recycling In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Callum McGuinn and Joseph Newcombe discuss electric vehicle ...
Jacqueline Murphy - July 27, 2021 Proud partners of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) for a 3rd year We are proud and excited to be entering our third year as an affiliate partner of the Graphene ...
Niles Beadman - July 20, 2021 Printed pills: a new dimension for medicine Three dimensional (3D) printing is the latest buzzword ricocheting through high-tech industries and ...
Andrew Fearnside - July 7, 2021 Creating qubits: Making progress with photonics Forward spoke with Jelmer Renema of Dutch firm QuiX about why photonics technology has so much ...
Jacqueline Murphy - July 2, 2021 IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2021 We are delighted to once again be ranked ‘gold tier’ in IAM PATENT 1000: The World’s Leading Patent ...
Alexander Cavell - June 28, 2021 Structural batteries: “massless” energy storage In recent years, people have sought to harness the world’s natural sustainable resources for our ...
Rachel Oxley - June 28, 2021 Podcast with Dave Rigg, COO, Bombora: The power of wave energy We speak to Dave Rigg, Chief Operating Officer at Bombora, a marine energy provider that is in the ...
Rob Walker - June 24, 2021 The future of autonomous vehicles on land and sea In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Chris Cattley and Rob Walker discuss the future of autonomous ...
Jacqueline Murphy - June 17, 2021 Mewburn Ellis ranked Tier 1 for Patent prosecution in MIP IP STARS 2021 We are delighted to be ranked Tier 1 for Patent Prosecution UK in MIP IP STARS 2021. As one of only ...
Finn Dinneen - June 17, 2021 Financial Times Special Report - Europe's Leading Patent Law Firms 2021 We are delighted to once again be recognised in the Financial Times Special Report Europe’s Leading ...
Callum McGuinn - June 11, 2021 How environmentally friendly are electric vehicles? In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Callum McGuinn and Joseph Newcombe discuss how environmentally ...
Rebecca Blundell - June 3, 2021 From the Moon to Mars: tyres for space exploration Conditions on the Moon can be extremely harsh. For instance, temperatures can range between ‑170 °C ...
Rob Walker - June 1, 2021 World Bicycle Day: a history of bicycles through patents 3rd June 2021 marks the 4th World Bicycle Day, which, in the words of the UN, recognises the ...
Callum McGuinn - May 25, 2021 Meet the material: PowerPaste A new hydrogen-based fuel packs quite a punch, writes Kerry Taylor-Smith.
Camille Terfve - May 20, 2021 Intellectual property and artificial intelligence in the UK: what might the future hold? AI is a hot topic for the current UK government. Last year, the UK Intellectual Property Office ...
Nathan Zhang - May 20, 2021 Materials informatics: a data-based approach to materials discovery Research into new materials with desirable properties has been one of the most long-standing ...
Andrew Fearnside - May 11, 2021 Creating qubits: a hot lead at ColdQuanta Mark Saffman tells Forward why an atomic approach has all the hallmarks of a winning quantum ...
Stephen Gill - May 10, 2021 A snapshot: EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Emma Graham and Stephen Gill give us an overview of the recently ...
Helen Bower - May 10, 2021 EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software Special Report In autumn 2020, we analysed more than 8000 opposition cases filed at the European Patent Office ...
Emma Graham - May 7, 2021 Engineering oppositions: is there such thing as a “disguised method claim”? Case - T 1798/08
Stephen Gill - May 6, 2021 We helped determine the meaning of “technical feature” Case - T 0258/03 Our extensive arguments in relation to whether a feature is ‘technical’ have ...
Matthew Naylor - May 5, 2021 Case review: what can be considered as prior art when assessing inventive step? Case - T 0211/06 In the decision T 0211/06 from the EPO Board of Appeal (BoA), Engineering partner ...
Stephen Gill - May 3, 2021 Engineering oppositions: what is considered to be an implicit disclosure in a patent application? Case - T2541/11 This decision provides guidance and clarification in three key areas of EP law:
Joseph Newcombe - April 26, 2021 COVID-19 win for AI pharma farmers The vaccine roll-out is in action all over the world. Nevertheless, given the propensity of ...
Rob Walker - April 19, 2021 To zero and beyond! Technology for a carbon-negative future 22 April 2021 marks the 51st Earth Day, an annual event seeking to diversify, educate and activate ...
Adam Gregory - April 19, 2021 Jim Mellon: the reluctant gradualist taking on ageing Forward editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies learns how we might all be able to live long and prosper from ...
Andrew Fearnside - April 15, 2021 Shock treatment: what’s behind the race to crack quantum? As the UK begins work towards realising world-beating ambitions, Forward set out to learn just what ...
Thomas Lonsdale - April 15, 2021 3D-printing: a breakthrough in battery technology As described in our recent blog article Energy storage: batteries and beyond, lithium-ion batteries ...
Daniel Brodsky - April 14, 2021 Patenting a software invention at the UKIPO: a case study In a recent success for one of our clients, we overcame an objection raised by the UKIPO that the ...
Rob Walker - April 8, 2021 Composites in automotive applications: accelerating towards a greener future? The UK government has recently vowed to cut 68% of CO2 emissions by 2030 in a bid to tackle climate ...
Isobel Stone - April 7, 2021 Hydrogen: turning grey to green Hydrogen fuels, with their high energy density and clean-air qualities, are oft-touted as a ...
Isobel Stone - April 7, 2021 Need to know: are we set for a bioprinting boom? From refashioning foods to fabricating organs, bioprinting is the smart technology that could have ...
Lucy White - March 31, 2021 The future of organ transplantation: growing organs from scratch? Organ transplantation has saved, transformed, and extended countless lives. Although ...
Andrew Fearnside - March 29, 2021 PsiQuantum expect commercial quantum computer by 2025 By 2025, the team from secretive quantum computing firm PsiQuantum will have a commercial quantum ...
Sarah Harvey - March 23, 2021 EPO 2020 Patent Index - key trends The European Patent Office (EPO) recently published its 2020 Patent Index which provides a ...
Dan Thornton - March 19, 2021 The UK tech sector – alive and kicking Tech Nation recently published their latest report on the state of the UK tech sector in 2020. ...
Thomas Lonsdale - March 17, 2021 eFuel – the solution to green air travel? Electric vehicles (EVs) look like an obvious replacement in working towards a decarbonised future. ...
Thomas Lonsdale - March 16, 2021 Clean, green, renewable machine - the future of centralised and distributed energy storage The Government recently announced that they want to make the UK the world leader in clean wind ...
Robert Watson - March 11, 2021 Defending D-Line From its first steps in North Shields to international stature, how has this company’s approach to ...
James Leach - March 11, 2021 EPO confirms that the COMVIK approach to assessing patent eligibility is applicable to computer simulations (G1/19) The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) has now issued their decision G1/19, which concerns the ...
Dan Thornton - March 2, 2021 Working together to define future mobility The fourth industrial revolution – big data – blockchain – artificial intelligence – machine ...
Richard Johnson - March 1, 2021 Developments in patenting activity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Humans generate a mind-boggling amount of data each day. This explosion in data has stimulated ...
Ben Boyd - February 23, 2021 Are we about to see a boom in supersonic flight? It has been nearly 20 years since the last commercial Concorde flight between New York and London. ...
Rob Walker - February 22, 2021 Autonomous vehicles: into reverse or about to shift up a gear? While the past 12 months have been a rocky ride for much of the automotive industry, one section ...
Lucy Coe - February 17, 2021 Top 5 fields of technology for Internet of Things (IoT) patenting The term “internet of things (IoT)” has often been mentioned in recent years, but what does it ...
Simon Parry - February 17, 2021 Maritime robotics - autonomous technology improving shipping efficiency To date, much of the focus on autonomous technology has centred on vehicles designed primarily to ...
Alex Burns - January 26, 2021 How to patent your digital health apps – 5 key considerations As the technical capabilities of smartphones continue to rise at an exponential rate, so too do the ...
Dan Thornton - January 25, 2021 WIPO Proof – a digital signature tool for evidencing documents Launched last year, WIPO Proof is an initiative created by the World Intellectual Property Office ...
Urs Ferber - January 21, 2021 Deep neural networks: of dogs, muffins, and self-driving cars You may have come across the “animals vs. food” picture quiz on the internet. One example is ...
Nathan Zhang - January 15, 2021 Lithium-metal batteries: a separator solution to dendrites Global demand for clean, renewable energy is now higher than ever before. With climate change ...
Matthew Smith - January 15, 2021 Meet the material: liquid crystal elastomer A team at Rice University has developed a morphing material with much more than biomedical ...
Tom Furnival - December 17, 2020 Ericsson accuses Samsung of un-FRAND-ly patent negotiations Following on from Unwired Planet v Huawei, Ericsson have launched a complaint in the US District ...
Dan Thornton - December 17, 2020 Why building and nurturing an IP culture in your business is important Intellectual property (“IP”) – patents in particular – form a key pillar of many technology ...
Sam Bailey - December 17, 2020 EU batteries directive – powering up opportunities? Changing needs, new demands Global energy consumption has more than doubled in the last 30 years, ...
Stephen Gill - December 16, 2020 What has railway signalling got to do with sealed tube transport? Railways depend for modern long-distance and high density train operation on sophisticated ...
Joseph Newcombe - December 11, 2020 Safer and better: Nanotech Energy batteries signal positive news Our lives require storage of electrical energy more than ever these days. Batteries are ...
Rebecca Blundell - December 8, 2020 Green tyres: wheeling towards sustainable rubber Rubber is a crucial component of the tyre, with most tyres typically containing a complex blend of ...
James Leach - December 7, 2020 Software inventions at the European Patent Office: an in-depth study It is sometimes difficult to obtain patent protection for inventions relating to software, in part ...
Joseph Newcombe - December 4, 2020 Cornwall powering the UK to the frontline of the lithium revolution Cornwall has long been an historic centre for mining in the UK. Since the 1800s Cornwall has been a ...
Camille Terfve - December 3, 2020 Deep learning cracks the protein folding problem? Deep learning has just made a new headline grabbing achievement: DeepMind’s latest AI-powered ...
Urs Ferber - December 1, 2020 Düsseldorf Regional Court refers Nokia vs. Daimler licensing dispute to CJEU As anticipated, the Düsseldorf Regional Court, in its decision Nokia ./. Daimler (4c O 17/19) ...
Richard Johnson - November 29, 2020 Deep trouble: what can happen when we can’t sleep? It has perhaps never been harder for us to get our heads down. But could new technology come to the ...
Matthew Naylor - November 29, 2020 Graphene getting the automotive industry into gear In the years since graphene was first created at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Professors ...
Ben Boyd - November 18, 2020 Aiming for the sky: aviation carbon reduction goals One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the significant reduction in carbon emissions in ...
Andrew Fearnside - November 18, 2020 Quantum braiding: an introduction to topological quantum computing In our previous blog, ‘Noisy quantum computing: overcoming quantum decoherence’, we discussed the ...
Sam Bailey - November 10, 2020 EPO and IEA dive deep into battery patent data Weighing in at nearly 100 pages, the recent detailed report on innovation and patent trends in the ...
Andrew Fearnside - November 6, 2020 Britain launches largest industry-led project to commercialise the use of quantum computing On 6 November 2020, Britain launched its largest industry-led quantum computing project, DISCOVERY, ...
Andrew Mears - October 30, 2020 Powering the future: It takes a very SPECIFIC set of skills Forward editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies learns how a collaborative project at Swansea University is ...
Rebecca Blundell - October 27, 2020 The future of tyres in the driverless age 1886 is often regarded as the birth year of the modern car. This was the year that Karl Benz filed ...
Daniel Brodsky - October 25, 2020 How green are electric vehicles? Electric vehicles are often hailed as a primary solution for combatting air pollution and climate ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 23, 2020 Chambers & Partners 2020 Legal Guide - Band 1 Recommended Firm We are pleased to report that Mewburn Ellis has been ranked Band 1 in Chambers & Partners 2020 ...
Dan Thornton - October 15, 2020 Robotic distancing Minimising person to person contact is the major weapon in reducing COVID-19 viral transmission. In ...
Juliana Murray - October 14, 2020 Facebook’s Quest to bring Virtual Reality to the Masses As explained in our article “Mixed reality: Is it the blend that will boost human wellbeing?”, ...
Robert Worboys - October 13, 2020 An introduction into extended reality (XR): the next level in 2020 vision Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term covering technologies that merge the physical ‘real ...
Urs Ferber - October 8, 2020 Thoughts on the transition to fully autonomous driving Imagine the following situation: you just received your brand-new, expensive sports car and your ...
Tom Furnival - October 6, 2020 Mixed reality: Is it the blend that will boost human wellbeing? From simulating the evaluation of cardiovascular patients to turning CT scans into 3D holograms, ...
Sam Bailey - October 2, 2020 Batteries: Power is nothing without control As part of our Thought Leaders series, Mewburn Ellis Partner Sam Bailey explores some exciting ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 1, 2020 Mewburn Ellis: top tier firm Legal 500 2021 We are delighted to be ranked top tier for our patent practice in the 2021 edition of The Legal ...
Sam Bailey - September 24, 2020 Batteries are no longer just passengers in electric vehicles In an earlier blog, we focussed on the chemistry aspects of the Tesla innovations from their ...
Juliana Murray - September 23, 2020 Computer-implemented inventions at the UKIPO: a case review As discussed in our Patentability of Software and Business Method Inventions in Europe information ...
Sam Bailey - September 23, 2020 A supercharged day for Tesla and battery tech On September 22, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to the stage during the company's highly anticipated ...
Urs Ferber - September 10, 2020 IP protection for 3D printed inventions 3D printing, known in industry as “additive manufacturing”, has emerged as one of the most ...
James Leach - September 9, 2020 Light speed AI: sci-fi buzzwords or computing reality? In recent years, there has been rapid acceleration in quantum computing development and industry ...
Andrew Fearnside - September 9, 2020 Post-quantum cryptography – a new hope The race to build a large-scale quantum computer is one of the most exciting technology challenges ...
Andrew Fearnside - September 8, 2020 Noisy quantum computing: overcoming quantum decoherence Anticipated as the next great leap in human technology, quantum computing promises to revolutionise ...
Simon Parry - September 5, 2020 Driving technology – could hands-free driving become legal in the UK? Specialist Patent Attorney and Automotive Safety Specialist Simon Parry considers the ...
Daniel Brodsky - August 27, 2020 How cities are adapting to the electric vehicle revolution The number of electric vehicles on roads around the world is growing rapidly. For example, in the ...
Tom Furnival - August 26, 2020 Unwired Planet v Huawei – the Supreme Court’s FRAND(ly) judgement Published Wednesday 26th August 2020, the Supreme Court has handed down their long anticipated ...
Ben Boyd - August 26, 2020 What’s cool in the world of air conditioning? Air conditioning accounts for approximately 10% of all electricity demand worldwide. By 2050 that ...
Paul Dunne - August 24, 2020 Meet the material: Robotic soft matter Inspired by muscles and activated by light, this lifelike and autonomous material could have ...
Dan Thornton - August 21, 2020 Smart phones and intoxication detection On the 18th of August 2020, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh published a paper ...
Simon Parry - August 19, 2020 Are Automated Lane Keeping Systems on the UK horizon? On 18th August 2020, the UK government’s Department for Transport (DfT) issued a call for evidence ...
Urs Ferber - August 18, 2020 Nokia vs. Daimler - FRAND defence does not apply Breaking News in Nokia vs. Daimler (2 O 34/19) - (FRAND/SEP case)
Andrew Fearnside - August 17, 2020 Quantum computing: Why qubits have consequences for IP As part of our Thought Leaders series, Mewburn Ellis Senior Associate Andrew Fearnside explores ...
James Leach - August 12, 2020 Five things you (really) need to know about patenting software in Europe We often receive enquiries asking whether a particular software-related invention might be eligible ...
Simon Parry - August 11, 2020 Turning the tide – the growing use of electrical power in the shipping industry Hybrid and fully electric cars are now beginning to garner wider acceptance and are becoming an ...
James Leach - August 10, 2020 Antimicrobial resistance: moving towards a targeted approach Spectromics is working to put our existing arsenal of antibiotics to best use in the fight against ...
Ben Boyd - July 30, 2020 How self-driving cars are putting the brakes on vehicle collisions When I first started driving, my parents would tell me to “drive safely” and then follow up with ...
Ben Boyd - July 29, 2020 Amazon and Zoox steer toward the development of self-driving delivery vehicles Amazon has agreed to acquire self-driving start-up Zoox for USD $1.2 billion (£975 million). This ...
Tom Furnival - July 28, 2020 A brighter future for unconventional agriculture? At the cost of more than one sad-looking hanging basket, I have come to understand that plants ...
Niles Beadman - July 23, 2020 Smart tyres: under pressure to get smarter For the past 175 years, the bulk of tyre innovation has focused on improving the structure and ...
Victoria Coleman - July 21, 2020 UK formally withdraws from the UPC In a statement to Parliament on 20 July 2020, the government formally confirmed the UK’s withdrawal ...
Simon Parry - July 21, 2020 Future mobility: exploring the new normal In a recent article we discussed the numerous and varied aspects relating to the impending mobility ...
Urs Ferber - July 15, 2020 Landmark judgement in German FRAND case Sisvel vs. Haier On May 5, 2020, the Cartel Senate of the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) held the oral hearing ...
Camille Terfve - July 14, 2020 Can software be therapeutic? The simple answer is: yes. Thanks for reading this post, stay tuned for more answers to your ...
Stephen Gill - July 10, 2020 Batteries in trains – filling the gap Hitachi Rail and Hyperdrive Innovation have recently announced an agreement to develop battery ...
Rachel Oxley - July 9, 2020 “Test, test, test” – the importance of diagnostics in pandemic preparedness While the world waits for a vaccine to be developed and approved for use against the COVID-19 ...
Alexander Cavell - July 7, 2020 Tesla: Driving battery development differently “Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the ...
Thomas Lonsdale - July 2, 2020 E-scooters – a solution to socially distanced travel? The UK Government has announced that trials of rental e-scooters will be allowed to take place from ...
Alex Burns - July 1, 2020 Right to repair: could it take a bite out of e-waste? Forward: features are independent pieces written for Mewburn Ellis discussing and celebrating the ...
Jacqueline Murphy - June 16, 2020 IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2020 We are delighted to once again be ranked ‘highly recommended’ in ‘IAM 1000: The World’s Leading ...
Tom Furnival - June 9, 2020 Mitsubishi Electric to embark on 5G testing programme In a recent press release Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that Japan’s Ministry of ...
Rachel Oxley - June 8, 2020 Ocean Energy - out of the blue Long considered the poor relation of solar and wind-based solutions, why is ocean energy now ...
Dan Thornton - May 29, 2020 Go for launch - SpaceX, NASA set for milestone mission You may have been watching the build up to the manned launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on ...
Alex Burns - May 28, 2020 Contact tracing – our route out of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown? It appears that the United Kingdom is now past the peak of the COVID-19 infection curve, and the ...
Simon Parry - May 12, 2020 From airbags to medical gowns – Autoliv continues to save lives to help fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) Companies around the world are pivoting to help meet global shortages of personal protection ...
Joseph Newcombe - May 7, 2020 InVEntions of WWII VE day on Friday 8 May 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe. In 1945 the day ...
Stephen Gill - May 1, 2020 How computer modelling has been used during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to inform political decisions Throughout the emergence and continued spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, policy makers ...
Tom Furnival - April 28, 2020 5G and autonomous vehicles - accelerating data communication speed The amount of data that self-driving cars are predicted to use is massive, really massive. A study ...
Tom Furnival - April 22, 2020 How 3D printing is helping in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) In a crisis which has been defined by its pace of change, 3D printing has become a useful tool in ...
Matthew Naylor - April 9, 2020 Crown Use during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic As discussed in a previous blog, the UK Government has the power to authorise (either in advance, ...
Callum McGuinn - April 7, 2020 Taking charge - repurposing, recycling and reinventing batteries Innovation in repurposing, recycling and reinventing batteries will be a rich vein of IP, say ...
Jacqueline Murphy - April 3, 2020 3D printing community responds to the coronavirus (COVID-19) challenge The coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic has left healthcare systems globally scrambling for much needed ...
John Addiss - February 4, 2020 Patenting the Internet of Things – the European perspective It is estimated that by 2025 there will be 26-30 billion devices in the workplace and home equipped ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 23, 2020 Proud Partners of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) We are proud and excited to be starting our second year as an affiliate partner of the Graphene ...
James Leach - January 20, 2020 AI: Machine learning - the when’s and the how’s of machine learning In our recent post on the use of artificial intelligence in bioinformatics, it was highlighted that ...
Camille Terfve - January 2, 2020 AI, deep learning and image analysis in bioinformatics Putting “AI” in the title of your paper, or indeed in the name of your company, seems to have ...
Isobel Stone - December 16, 2019 Collagen scaffolds – the future of tissue engineering? Despite the success of organ transplantation since its inception in the 20th century, people today ...
James Leach - December 13, 2019 AI: Machine learning - what is the machine actually learning? Following on from Richard Johnson’s blog post “Inventive AI: can machines innovate?” we now focus ...
Rachel Oxley - December 11, 2019 Indian Patent Office adopts the Patent Prosecution Highway programme Recently, the Indian Union Cabinet approved a proposal for the Indian Patent Office (IPO) to adopt ...
William Hey - November 28, 2019 Australian innovation patent system - the end is near The Australian innovation patent system is on its last legs, which could spell bad news for SMEs ...
Callum McGuinn - November 20, 2019 Lithium-ion batteries - powering the EVs of the future In a recent blog, Eleanor Maciver reviewed a variety of promising “batteries of the future”. Of ...
Simon Parry - November 11, 2019 Extreme fast charging – the future of electric vehicle batteries With global deployment now exceeding five million, electric vehicles continue to hold the promise ...
Maria Hall - October 28, 2019 Lateral partner hire into our new Patent Director role We are pleased to announce the lateral hire of Paul Misselbrook, previously a partner at Venner ...
Urs Ferber - October 26, 2019 FRAND Licensing of SEPs in the age of connected cars Cars are developing more and more into computerized mobile platforms. They relieve the driver of ...
Richard Johnson - October 7, 2019 Inventive AI: can machines innovate? The integration of technology based on artificial intelligence into our everyday lives continues ...
Eleanor Maciver - September 18, 2019 Batteries for the future: the sky may not be the limit! In an earlier blog Sam Bailey discussed the growing demands for high performance battery ...
Simon Parry - September 13, 2019 Intermodality: the future of transport? Search the term 'intermodality' and you'll turn up a number of definitions and some fine ...
Richard Johnson - September 6, 2019 When AI met EQ Affective computing may be a multi-billion -dollar business, but much of how it works remains ...
Matthew Naylor - August 30, 2019 Printing with graphene: exploring the inks set to unleash graphene's potential Graphene has been widely heralded as a game-changer in the research and development of new ...
Simon Parry - August 20, 2019 Fast times at TBRe: the future of autonomous vehicles In Forward magazine edition 2, we met up with Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) who are driving the ...
Simon Parry - August 19, 2019 Team Bath Racing Electric - zooming through 2019 Each year, over 100 university engineering teams from around the globe travel to Silverstone, ...
Camille Terfve - August 15, 2019 Patentable subject matter in bioinformatics - USPTO’s January 2019 guidance In this article, Paul Liu and Ashley Barton from Duane Morris LLP provided some interesting ...
Tom Furnival - August 7, 2019 A case in point - Trunki vs Kiddee Rob Law, the founder and chief executive of Magmatic who make the Trunki product, said that the ...
Sam Bailey - June 27, 2019 Charging into the future - the increasing demands on battery technologies Battery technology is an area of constant innovation. For years we have been trying to squeeze a ...
Simon Parry - June 26, 2019 Data and security issues in a world of connected cars Mobility patterns are changing and technological innovations in electrification, connectivity and ...
Anna Mudge - June 19, 2019 Tips from the top: inspiring women in technology You may be surprised to hear that only 17% of those working in Technology in the UK are female. ...
Graeme Moore - May 29, 2019 The journey of rLoop - a new technology innovation network disrupting the world of transport and IP As a child growing up in Blackburn, near Manchester, UK, Ilyas Vali dreamed of owning a dog. He ...
Simon Parry - May 24, 2019 A single to Singapore please: the rise in on-demand bus services Discussion about future mobility tends to focus on the strategies of the major car manufacturers ...
Simon Parry - April 5, 2019 Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles: growth and innovation While much attention and noise has surrounded the growth in the number of electric and plug-in ...
Matthew Smith - April 4, 2019 Hydrogen: the storage question There’s a lot to like about hydrogen. It’s light; it’s abundant (at least atomically - water and ...
Frances Salisbury - February 27, 2019 Bioinformatics Inventions: Patenting challenges at the interface of computer and life sciences We are entering an age of precision medicine, with patients receiving tailored treatments, selected ...
Emma Graham - February 26, 2019 How to patent AI technology at the EPO Once only a figment of the imagination in literature such as Mark Shelley’s Frankenstein, ...
Simon Parry - February 25, 2019 Self-driving vehicles: what do consumers think (and want)? As a survey of 25,000 consumers in 20 countries, and a study that has been conducted annually over ...
Simon Parry - January 22, 2019 Autonomous vehicles - the race to innovate The future of the automotive sector will be fundamentally different from its past. Electric ...
Graeme Moore - December 13, 2018 Blockchain: the next patent boom Emma Graham and Graeme Moore attended the EPO’s “Patenting Blockchain” conference in The Hague – ...
Simon Parry - December 11, 2018 Future mobility: the new direction of transport Massive social, economic and technology trends are converging to change mobility - how we move ...
Simon Parry - October 30, 2018 Team Bath Racing Electric: racing to success Team Bath Racing Electric (TBRe) achieved their best ever ranking at the 2018 Formula Student UK ...
