The Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is now expected to go live in early 2023. The…

The internal combustion engine, or ICE, was undoubtedly one of the greatest innovations of the twentieth century. It made long-distance…

Many European patent applications are prosecuted through to grant where through determined and persuasive argument, luck, or an Examiner oversight,…

Intellectual Property (IP) law is not something that easily attracts the UK public’s attention. However this changed significantly when the…

The number of UK smartphones users reached 55.5 million in 2021. This means that nearly 83% of the population have…

In the past decade there has been a significant shift in how the space sector operates. Unlike the Space Race…

Patents are the ‘go-to’ form of Intellectual Property (IP) protection for new pharmaceuticals. Through patents, protection can be attained for…

Innovation in materials science often creates high levels of interest from the scientific community as well as the commercial world….

The European Patent Office’s latest patent index shows that patent applications filed at the EPO hit a record number in…

Net Zero has long been seen as an important goal in mitigating the effects of climate change.  Recently, the COP26…

Governments around the world have committed to targets to decarbonise their economies in the coming years, in order to limit…

A peculiarity of patent prosecution at the EPO is that examiners typically insist on the description being amended into line…