We start with self-taught chemist Charles Goodyear's quest to make natural rubber into a stable and durable product.

Much of the administrative burden around managing portfolios of patent applications is concerned with ensuring that record systems and filing is up-to-date ...

As EQEs can be sat in the official languages of the EPO — French, German and English — this outperformance cannot be attributed to a language advantage for UK candidates.

However, UK law, as in many other territories, does enable patents to be co-owned and co-filed by more than a single party.

There is a misconception that all inventors are eccentric old men who spend their lives tinkering with gadgets in a shed.

There are many obstacles preventing the uptake of autonomous and electric vehicles. A recent white paper from not-for-profit organisation Regen highlighted several policy priorities that need to be addressed ...

Now, when you think about the World Cup, malicious marketing tactics and trade mark law might not immediately spring to mind.

Licensing a patent is often seen as a way of amicably settling a dispute, or bringing a product (covered by the patent) to market, where the owner of the patent is unable to do so themselves.

Powerful ideas, whether they are of a political, religious or technological persuasion, have the capacity to improve our lives.

In this article, we take a look at recent case law surrounding exclusive licensing and how care should be taken both when negotiating and acquiring an exclusive licence.

Employee infidelity occurs when an employee contravenes their duty of fidelity to their employer. One example of this is disclosing confidential information, such as the details of a new invention, to a competitor.

The Three Lions defied all expectations at the World Cup by reaching the semi-final and breaking England's penalty shootout hoodoo along the way.