Technology

Thoughts

Patents versus prizes: A Nobel case study

Is the patent system the best way to incentivise innovation? This has been a longstanding question in scientific and technological spheres. Patents enable companies and institutes to see a return on their investment and, in many cases, turn a substantial profit.

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AI’s threat to trade mark rights

The internet is the world’s marketplace, storefront, and trading floor, with businesses and brands vying for attention. While the machines are still learning, they are already influencing consumer habits across industries. What happens when the technology falls short?

Thoughts

Ingenious machines: Inventive Step and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

It is a requirement of most, if not all, patent systems that an invention should be non-obvious over the state of the art in order to warrant patent protection.

Thoughts

AI Meets IP: The patent challenge

This, the first of a series of articles looking at AI and IP, focuses on using patents and other IP rights to protect AI-related inventions and machine learning.

News

Broad Institute wins CRISPR Appeal

This week saw the latest instalment in the now infamous multijurisdictional CRISPR patent war between two heavyweight academic institutions, the Broad Institute and the University of California - a win at the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) for the Broad institute.

News

Novelty of overlapping ranges before the UK Courts - Jushi v OCV

The use of numerical ranges in patent claims is common in many technological fields. The question of novelty of a numerical range over a range disclosed in the prior art is often faced and, in particular, the situation where ranges overlap.

Thoughts

Computer says no - AI given powers in Australian draft IP legislation

We were very intrigued recently when our friend at the UKIPO, James Porter, alerted us to an interesting part of some draft legislation in Australia.

Thoughts

Inventions that made the modern running shoe

With the London Marathon just around the corner, Gregory St Clair Jones and Nico Cousens take a look at some of the many inventions that have shaped the modern running shoe we know today.

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Strut of the drones: fireworks to fashion

Over the last few weeks drones have been swarming our headlines.

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