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…

Today we announce that Priscilla Makovski will be retiring after 44 years at Barker Brettell. Priscilla was managing partner between…