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Are you an innovative tech company that relies on R&D and product development to stay one step ahead of your competitors?  If so, it is likely that you are familiar with intellectual property rights, and how they can help you to protect your investment and market share.  But do you have a clear strategy for…

When innovators have an idea for a new product, they will often use the expertise that you, as a product developer or designer, have, to make sure that a marketable product is developed, tested and designed.  There is obviously a cost associated with that, so how can you help your client to protect their investment.?…

Many innovators and R&D teams understand and appreciate the value of patent searching, both as a design tool and to see what others in their field are up to.  Patent searching can help to identify what may be patentable about your own innovation, provide key insights into how others have tried to solve technical problems…

I don’t usually blog about in-depth trade mark issues because I am not a Chartered Trade Mark attorney, and I use a trusted partner to help me to provide high quality trade mark services, so I don’t often feel qualified to comment on trade mark issues.  However, it is inevitably high profile trade mark court…

Patents are territorial rights. This means that if, for example, you have a UK patent, it will allow you to stop others from making or selling your invention in the UK. BUT, if you want to be able to stop them from doing the same in other countries, then you need to secure patent protection…

Intellectual property (IP) ownership is a crucial aspect of innovation and creative work, making sure that creators and inventors keep control over their ideas. BUT, joint intellectual property ownership—where two or more parties share the rights to a piece of IP (e.g. a patent)—can create significant challenges and problems. While it may seem like a…

According to some reports, the global application development platform market was valued at $5,497M in 2018 and is expected to reach $34,768M by 2025.  This extraordinary predicted growth (32.9% pa) is based on the rising demand for commercial mobile devices and the emergence of cross-platform applications.  There is certainly a vast amount of app development…

It is reasonably rare for a client or potential client to have come up with some groundbreaking or breakthrough technology that is completely different and vastly improved compared with what is already known.  It is much more common to see step-change improvements or combinations of known technologies or ideas, and hear, all too often (from…

Many potential clients come to us knowing that they need some form of intellectual property (IP) to protect their innovative products, designs or brand names/logos, but are often unsure about what type of IP they need..  There are three main types of registered intellectual property: patents, (registered) designs and (registered) trade marks, and they all…