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 ...
Joanna Smith - 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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
Amin Zouine - 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 ...
Christoph Moeller - March 20, 2024 EU design protection rules modernised for new technologies and circular economy On 14 March 2024, the European Parliament approved modernised EU design protection rules to adapt ...
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 ...
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 ...
Joe Egelstaff - January 16, 2024 AI bias in healthcare AI tools are increasingly being used in healthcare settings, with applications ranging from ...
Alexander 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lucy Coe - December 4, 2023 EPO will accelerate oppositions when there are parallel UPC infringement or revocation proceedings The EPO have announced in the November 2023 Official Journal that they will accelerate opposition ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Alexander 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ashley Cresswell - 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 ...
Darena Slavova - April 25, 2023 EPO to Abolish “10-Day Rule” from 01 November 2023 Key Points: the “10-day rule” will be abolished and will not be applied in respect of European ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Emma Graham - February 2, 2023 Meet the team: Emma Graham, Partner and Patent Attorney in the Engineering team, London As part of our 'meet the team' series, we talk to Emma Graham about her love of patent drafting, ...
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 ...
Callum Anderson - January 31, 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 ...
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?
Andrew Fearnside - December 15, 2022 Quantum and the law Mewburn Ellis speaks to Kaniah Konkoly-Thege, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Government Relations ...
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.” — ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Ashley Cresswell - 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - December 3, 2021 Ferrari v Mansory Design: CJEU confirms partial designs may be protected as unregistered designs The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently published its preliminary ruling in case ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Katie Lovell - July 15, 2021 Smart grids – cities of the future? Increasingly, climate change and smart energy consumption are at the forefront of governmental ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - May 27, 2021 Community registered designs may claim priority to a PCT application within 12 months, European Court of Justice rules In a recent case (T-579/19), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had to decide what the ...
Lucy Coe - May 18, 2021 Optimism, Growth and Fulfilment: how can we feel fulfilled at work at all stages of our career? Earlier this month, on 4 May 2021, Mewburn Ellis was delighted to host one of the American ...
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:
Dan Thornton - April 23, 2021 UK SMEs left exposed by failure to protect IP New research from Mewburn Ellis and YouGov to mark International IP Day
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Ashley Cresswell - 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 ...
Urs Ferber - March 16, 2021 Patent litigation in Germany - an overview Germany – Europe’s largest economy – is an important market with respect to sales and investments ...
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. ...
Dan Thornton - February 23, 2021 IP rights and company performance – a causal connection? We believe that IP can play an important positive role in commercial success, and in particular in ...
Christoph Moeller - February 22, 2021 Updates to the EPO Guidelines 2021 The long awaited EPO Guidelines update has now been published (albeit in an unedited, provisional ...
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 ...
Dan Thornton - February 17, 2021 Confidence with patent documents as a technical resource What is a patent document and why could it be useful to your R&D team? A patent confers upon ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 Howe - 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
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 ...
Ashley Cresswell - 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Richard Howe - 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Richard Howe - October 30, 2019 Printing the unprintable – new technique expands graphene printing to previously unsuitable substrates Printing with graphene is a large and growing field, representing a highly promising range of ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
Richard Howe - 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, ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - June 26, 2019 Data and security issues in a world of connected cars Mobility patterns are changing and technological innovations in electrification, connectivity and ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
Christoph Moeller - March 28, 2019 The road to autonomous In a recent article published in Intellectual Property Magazine, Christoph Moeller explores the ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - January 28, 2019 Autonomous driving: the IP twists and turns Autonomous driving (AD) is on everyone’s lips when it comes to the next big thing in the automotive ...
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 – ...
Christoph Moeller - 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 ...
Ashley Cresswell - August 1, 2017 UK Supreme Court Establishes Doctrine of Equivalents in Actavis v Lilly In many jurisdictions a product or process may be held to infringe even though it falls outside the ...