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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...

Designs in the Medtech Sector – Are High Filings a Result of Coronavirus or Part of an On-Going Trend?

At the time of writing, the number of registered designs filed and published at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in 2020 relating to equipment for doctors, hospitals and laborat...

“What should I spend on a patent?” – Ensuring Value for Money

Let’s get one thing out of the way: patents can be expensive.  On the other hand, they are often essential to the success of many businesses.  So how can innovators acquire and maintain su...

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...

Oliver Henry James Beswetherick 1996 – 2020

Author: John Jappy, Partner Oliver Henry James Beswetherick 1996 – 2020 It is with great sadness that we report the death of our trainee patent attorney, colleague and friend, Oliver Beswetheric...

How Far Away Are We From the “Remote Hug”?

Recent technological advances have made the recent “COVID-19” lockdown slightly more bearable than it would have been if it had happened, for instance, 20 years ago.  With the rise of social ...

Is the Hague System Underused by Design Applicants?

The latest Hague Yearly Review [1] of industrial designs filed under the Hague system shows that the number of international applications filed in 2019 increased by 8% compared to 2018.  However,...

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...