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 ...
Andrew Mears - January 16, 2025 Shaping Possibilities: The Journey of Prosthetic Fitting Prosthetics have a transformative impact on patients' quality of life, enabling greater ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frances Salisbury - September 10, 2024 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome awareness month September is PCOS awareness month. PCOS, which stands for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, is a hormonal ...
Sarah Harvey - August 23, 2024 The Science of Success: Optimising Female Athletic Performance For the first time in Olympic history, the Paris 2024 Games achieved gender parity among athletes. ...
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 ...
Charlotte Lynch - June 4, 2024 The HPV vaccine: the global success of prioritising women’s health Let's talk about the HPV vaccine - a revolutionary drug and global strategy that proved how ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fay Allen - March 27, 2024 Endometriosis - research, diagnosis and treatment progress March is Endometriosis Action Month, and this year’s focus is on raising awareness.
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 ...
Daniel Brodsky - March 8, 2024 Robotics in surgery For many, the word ‘surgery’ suggests images of surgeons operating with handheld instruments ...
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 ...
Isobel Fisher - February 22, 2024 Colony picking robot expands our knowledge of human gut microbiome The human microbiome is very diverse. A typical gut microbiome can contain hundreds or even ...
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 ...
Frances Salisbury - February 8, 2024 Yoni Health: the medical secrets of menstrual blood Menstrual effluent contains a wealth of scientific info, including biomarkers for endometriosis, ...
Amelia Jones - February 7, 2024 Fertile Ground: Tapping into the Potential of the Female Microbiome Healthcare systems around the world have historically been designed by men, with “white males” ...
Joe Egelstaff - January 16, 2024 AI bias in healthcare AI tools are increasingly being used in healthcare settings, with applications ranging from ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Callum Anderson - April 4, 2023 Motion capture and AI in healthcare When most of us hear the term motion capture, we tend to think of special effects in films and ...
Jacqueline Murphy - March 14, 2023 Femtech: a growth industry - new special report We are delighted to release our latest report Femtech: a growth industry.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Eliot Ward - July 7, 2022 Breakthrough: super fast DNA tests A rapid bedside genetic test can screen newborn babies for a genetic variant which makes them ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...
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 ...
Andrew Mears - February 17, 2022 Meet the client – Creo Medical Creo Medical’s cutting-edge medical devices have several applications, including the treatment of ...
Frances Salisbury - February 10, 2022 Predicting the unpredictable during pregnancy For many expectant parents, pregnancy is a time of excitement, yet this time can also be riddled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Frances Salisbury - December 2, 2020 Go with the flow: the allure of the liquid biopsy Forward finds out how fresh technologies are providing a way to cut invasive procedures out of the ...
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 ...
Dan Thornton - October 15, 2020 Robotic distancing Minimising person to person contact is the major weapon in reducing COVID-19 viral transmission. In ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Camille Terfve - June 3, 2020 Have we entered the era of the DIY superhuman? Self-improvement products are everywhere around us, on our bookshelves and supermarket shelves ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
