Optics &

Photonics

Innovations in optics and photonics underpin advancements in high-tech manufacturing, faster communications, medical diagnostics, high-power lasers, nuclear threat identification, solar power and other technologies essential to the health and safety of people worldwide and offers the potential for a scalable quantum computer. Many of today’s ‘must-have’ technologies such as smart phones, high definition TVs, LED lighting and digital cameras are enabled by optics and photonics.

Our patent attorneys have a wealth of experience in the fields of optics, photonics and laser science, with many holding masters and PhD qualifications in this technology space. In addition they have a vast amount of relevant IP expertise at all stages of the patent lifecycle including patent drafting, prosecution, infringement and validity opinions, freedom to operate work, and oppositions. Their patent work covers a range of specific technologies including everything from optoelectronics to medical imaging, laser development and quantum structures to LiDAR equipment and imaging techniques.

Our patent experts really understand the physics behind these inventions and relish the opportunity to work with you to patent this technology.

EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software-compressed

Special Report

EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software

In autumn 2020, we analysed more than 8000 opposition cases filed at the European Patent Office (EPO) over the last 12 years, studying the timelines for hundreds of engineering, electronics and software oppositions.

The research enabled us to see how oppositions have been affected by procedural changes at the European Patent Office and by the Covid-19 pandemic. With a focus on Transport, Medical Devices, Telecommunications and Software, the report also looks at how opposition outcomes vary across the four different technology sectors and which players are the most active.

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Our clients are at the heart of our Trade Mark business

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 business'.

UPC Weekly - Battling the Biosimilars: opt-outs, preliminary injunctions & protective letters

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 biosimilars. Alexion Pharmaceuticals have launched UPC proceedings against Amgen and Samsung, while Novartis ...

Cleantech Commercialisation Report: Highlights and Trends

Cleantech Commercialisation Report: Highlights and Trends

Today (26 April 2024) the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) published an in-depth (and very lengthy) report on financing and commercialisation of cleantech. [For ...

The brilliant dawn of AI drug discovery

The brilliant dawn of AI drug discovery

Computer simulations are solving challenges previously thought uncrackable.

Medical devices: Insights through IP - new report 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 the recent IP trends in the medical devices sector.

UPC Weekly - Language of proceedings at the UPC

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 defendant can successfully request a change of the language of proceedings, and an overview of the ...

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Mewburn Ellis

FORWARD MAGAZINE

Mewburn Ellis Forward is a biannual publication that celebrates the best of innovation and exploration. Through its pages we hope to inform and entertain, but also to encourage discussion about the most compelling developments taking place in the scientific and entrepreneurial world. Along the way, we’ll engage with the IP challenges that international organisations face every day.