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The President of the EPO Turns up the Heat on the Boards of Appeal in the Debate Over Patentability of Products of Essentially Biological Processes

Following on from my previous report on the EPO Administrative Council’s new Rule 28(2) explicitly excluding products of “essentially biological processes” from patentability, this story has tak...

Theragnosis: Does the Patent System Account For Autonomous Treatment in Medtech?

If you’ve been following academic and media discussion of medtech innovation over the past year, you’ll likely have detected mounting excitement about the concept of theragnosis.  A portmanteau o...

Medtech Innovation Through the Ages – From Artificial Hearts to Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare and technology are intrinsically linked.  Whether through the development of new drugs or the design and manufacture of more sophisticated devices to examine, diagnose, monitor conditi...

British Software in China – Intellectual Property and Industrial Software Considerations

The UK Intellectual Property Office recently published a guide for British companies looking to provide software to projects or customers in China to help identify and mitigate potential intellectual ...

Comment on T 0489/14 Pedestrian Simulation CONNOR

Recently, in the decision T 0489/14 the EPO’s Boards of Appeal published their referral of three questions relating to computer implemented simulations to the Enlarged Board of Appeal.  Referra...

Long Live the Idea: Using IP to Monetise Your Invention

Game-changing ideas from sole inventors and startups in tech are often shelved because the costs of implementing them are too high.  Sometimes, this is simply the reality of the market – some hurdl...

2018 Put Sport Tech Into the Floodlights, but What Does the Future Hold?

What will the 2018 Fifa World Cup be remembered for? France’s victory? England’s resurgence? Senegal’s joyous training methods? Quite unusually, last year’s World Cup was probably most notewor...