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Thinking Outside the Box: Innovations in Extending Electric Vehicle Range

In 2018, the UK Government announced its “Road to Zero” plan for achieving at least 50% of new car sales being ultra-low emission vehicles by 2030.  In the plan, the government pledges gr...

5 Top Tips for Food & Drink Businesses Seeking Investment

Edward Carstairs took part in an online panel discussion titled “Preparing your business for investment and maximising the valuation” at Bread & Jam Festival 2020, the UK’s first food found...

Shining a Light on Black History Month

This piece was co-authored by Bosé Animasaun and Hannah Kite. It’s not often that inventions become the subject of US election campaign speeches, but then 2020 has been anything but usual.  Ou...

Haptics in the Automotive Sector – Encouraging Adoption and Maximising Returns Through Patents

There has been a widely-reported growth of new technology and interest in the automotive sector in recent years.  We now expect our vehicles to do more than ever before and this trend is forecast...

The Rise of FemTech and the Importance of Diversity in Innovation

Inventors and designers inevitably add personal bias to any product that they design, even in circumstances when they are making products for the whole population. The UK Intellectual Property Office ...

British Plastics Federation: IP Protection for Plastics | 19.10.20

Monday 19th October 2020, 12:00pm (London UK – BST) 45mins The British Plastics Federation (BPF) was established to represent the UK industry in 1933 and is the world’s longest-running plastic...

The Race to Rebrand

This piece was co-authored by Bosé Animasaun and Natasha Fernando. Getting the branding right has never been more critical to a business’s success.  To today’s socially-conscious consumers, ...

Neurodegenerative Disease: Is Your IP Strategy Setting You Up for Success?

With an ever-aging population, one of the biggest challenges facing the modern world is the rising prevalence of neurodegenerative disease.  Neurodegenerative disease is a collective term for a numbe...

UK Withdraws Ratification of UPCA

The UK has formally ended its participation in the unitary patent project by withdrawing its earlier ratification of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA).  In a statement to the House...

Patentability of Simulations at the EPO – G1/19 Hearing Report

Partner Matthew Hoyles observed the long anticipated G1/19 Enlarged Board of Appeal hearing held on 15 July 2020.  All sides provided well thought out arguments and some particularly interesting poin...