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Next-Generation Wound Care: Smart Materials and Technologies Transforming Healing

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The Science of Success: Optimising Female Athletic Performance

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The HPV vaccine: the global success of prioritising women’s health
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How data changed our understanding and care of breast cancer
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Medical devices: Insights through IP - new report 2024
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We are delighted to release our latest report Medical devices: Insights through IP which looks at ...

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Robotics in surgery
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Laparoscopic AI
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Laparoscopic AI

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Graphene Medtech: The Next Frontier
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It has been 20 years since Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov first isolated graphene: the two ...

Colony picking robot expands our knowledge of human gut microbiome
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Advances in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans
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AI bias in healthcare
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Femtech: a growth industry - new special report
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Femtech: a growth industry - new special report

We are delighted to release our latest report Femtech: a growth industry.

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MRI-Guided Therapy
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Robotic-assisted surgery: from fiction to reality and beyond
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Robotic-assisted surgery: from fiction to reality and beyond

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Femtech: Rich on innovation, short on funding
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Femtech: Rich on innovation, short on funding

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Software for use in medical methods: excluded from patentability?

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Let’s talk FemTech: the rise of female focussed innovation

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Meet the client – Creo Medical
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Meet the client – Creo Medical

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Predicting the unpredictable during pregnancy

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The smart healthcare revolution – what does it mean for patent attorneys?
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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 ...

Digital therapeutics: the rise of digital health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Digital therapeutics: the rise of digital health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic

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A snapshot: Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health
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 ...

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Sensors and sensibility: Caroline Hargrove CBE eyes up the future of healthtech

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Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health Special Report
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Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health Special Report

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Printed pills: a new dimension for medicine
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Printed pills: a new dimension for medicine

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Intellectual property and artificial intelligence in the UK: what might the future hold?
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 ...

A snapshot: EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software
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 ...

EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software Special Report
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 ...

Jim Mellon: the reluctant gradualist taking on ageing
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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 ...

Need to know: are we set for a bioprinting boom?
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Need to know: are we set for a bioprinting boom?

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The future of organ transplantation: growing organs from scratch?
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The future of organ transplantation: growing organs from scratch?

Organ transplantation has saved, transformed, and extended countless lives. Although ...

Top 5 fields of technology for Internet of Things (IoT) patenting
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 ...

How to patent your digital health apps – 5 key considerations
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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 ...

Go with the flow: the allure of the liquid biopsy
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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 ...

Deep trouble: what can happen when we can’t sleep?
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Deep trouble: what can happen when we can’t sleep?

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Robotic distancing
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Robotic distancing

Minimising person to person contact is the major weapon in reducing COVID-19 viral transmission. In ...

Mixed reality: Is it the blend that will boost human wellbeing?
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, ...

Antimicrobial resistance: moving towards a targeted approach
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Antimicrobial resistance: moving towards a targeted approach

Spectromics is working to put our existing arsenal of antibiotics to best use in the fight against ...

“Test, test, test” – the importance of diagnostics in pandemic preparedness
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“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 ...

Have we entered the era of the DIY superhuman?
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Have we entered the era of the DIY superhuman?

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Contact tracing – our route out of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown?
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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 ...

How 3D printing is helping in the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19)
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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 ...

AI, deep learning and image analysis in bioinformatics
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 ...

Patentable subject matter in bioinformatics - USPTO’s January 2019 guidance
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 ...

Bioinformatics Inventions: Patenting challenges at the interface of computer and life sciences
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 ...

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