Patents

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…

The patent system operates on the basis of a simple premise—to encourage innovators to share the secrets of their new,…

This article was previously published in LexisNexis in the TMT analysis section of the September 2018 edition. Can quantum computing…

Love them or loathe them, robots are here to stay. And the influence of automation is only expected to grow…

An early adopter of using intellectual property (IP) to protect its innovation, the cosmetics industry has reached a point in…

Anyone who has seen or read ‘The Martian’ will remember the scene in which the main character, stranded astronaut Mark…