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 ...
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 ...
James Leach - November 16, 2023 IP Protection for software-based products- An Introduction for SMEs We are excited to launch our new software resource booklet — 'IP Protection for software-based ...
James Leach - August 16, 2023 Quick guide to determining whether a software invention is patent eligible. In general, the main obstacle to obtaining patent protection for a new software invention is the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
