Service: Patents

The role of Standards Essential Patents in the automotive industry The ACES revolution The automotive industry is undergoing some of…

Katie Howe, double award-winning patent attorney at Barker Brettell developed a love for science, and in particular physics, from an…

This article was originally published on the IP Careers website, August 2019. Inside Careers recently caught up with Craig Slater…

On 1 January 2020, the rules governing procedure in ‘Appeals of Decisions’ made by the European Patent Office (EPO) will…

Companies working in the medical device space are an inspiration, working tirelessly to improve the lives of patients and their…

Tailoring the properties exhibited by a material has classically focussed on altering its chemical or compositional nature (for example, to…

Someone taking a return flight from London to New York generates about the same level of emissions as the average…

Grid balancing – the ramping up of production to cover peaks in power usage – is becoming ever more important…

A new referral to the European Patent Office’s highest court, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has again raised questions…

A patent for an invention provides its owner with the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale…

In the UK, it is estimated that one million tonnes of plastic packaging goes to landfill every year. The 2015…

Whether you know it as CASE or ACES[i], the impact of those four letters on the automotive sector looks set…