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In many companies, the CFO and CIO can easily oversee 2,000 to 4,000 people and given the nature of their respective charges — finance’s to reduce risk without overspending and IT’s to increase benefits from the organisation’s technology assets — they have sometimes been at odds on where investment should and shouldn’t be made.

The UK government has unveiled a £1.1 billion AI Adoption Package with a strategic focus on semiconductor innovation, including £150 million for next-generation inference chips from British startups and a £120 million hardware innovation programme.

In 2014 Vince Cable announced a £10m government fund available for trials of driverless cars on public roads, commencing on 1st January 2015.

Somewhat abruptly, the planet entered into a new and rapidly accelerating space race. Latin America and the Caribbean have decided to join that race.

Withers KhattarWong LLP, the Singapore office of international law firm Withers, has boosted its Technology and Intellectual Property (IP) capabilities in Singapore

The DTI have confirmed that they will not make any changes in relation to the law of company charges for the time being.

A patent attorney explores how Versatile RobotX, a University of Essex spinout, is revolutionizing agriculture through autonomous harvesting robots that combine delicate robotic arms with sophisticated machine vision algorithms. The company has secured over £1 million in funding to tackle the formidable technical challenges of automated fruit and vegetable harvesting, addressing critical labor shortages and the growing demand for smart farming solutions.

The Supreme Court's decision in Emotional Perception AI has reshaped how software inventions are examined at the UKIPO, aligning UK practice with the EPO's approach. A recent hearing demonstrates that while determining eligibility may be straightforward, assessing which features possess technical character presents significant challenges that can fundamentally impact the inventive step analysis.

The number of applications filed at the EPO increased by a fairly modest 4.6% between 2017 and 2018. The number of searches completed at the EPO is down 5.8 % compared to 2017, despite a 35% increase between 2014 and 2017.

In G1/21, the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) held that in the absence of a state of general emergency (such as the COVID pandemic), in-person oral proceedings were the "gold-standard".

The debate around the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing and as the number and variety of connected devices grow, the fate of IoT will lie on the cultural and social paradigms that define humanity as a whole.

The Satellite Applications Catapult's investment in the National Autonomy and Drone Innovation Centre marks a significant development in the convergence of drone and space-based technologies. With the UK government targeting routine beyond-line-of-sight drone flights by 2027 and forecasting a £45 billion drone economy by 2030, this facility aims to accelerate innovation by providing integrated testing capabilities for position, navigation, timing resilience and satellite communications.

Deloitte predicts that the number of click and collect locations in Europe will reach half a million in 2015, a 20% increase on the previous year.

The EU's proposed data protection laws could have major consequences for European businesses, although there's still time to change them.