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

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…

As part of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly finding its way into virtually every part…

Den svenska företagsmarknaden kännetecknas av små och medelstora företag (SMF). Av de cirka 1,2 miljoner företag som finns i Sverige…

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) machines become ever more capable, the way in which they are treated by existing law is…