A patent can be thought of as a deal struck between an inventor and a state. The state is willing to grant an inventor a time-limited...

Following high profile settlements over patent suits between some of the biggest players in the smartphone market (notably Apple, Samsung...

In news which recently made the headlines, it was reported that Paramount and CBS were suing the makers of a fan-made Star Trek film,

The total market for antibiotics is about 40 billion USD each year. However, only about 12% of those sales come from patented...

With only a month now until the UK's referendum on membership of the European Union, our thoughts are turning to the impact on our...

For a number of years now quantum computers have been hyped up as leading the next revolution in computing, owing to their potential...

AbbVie Inc.'s blockbuster anti-inflammatory medication Humira (adalimumab) was the world's top-selling patented drug in 2015. 

The...

In addition to the earlier news about Germany, some further moves towards ratification of the Unitary Patent Court Agreement have...

Germany is one of the three crucial EU member states (alongside the UK and France) which must ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement...

Obtaining patent protection in the US for inventions based on natural products has become challenging in recent years, particularly in...

We have all heard of open source software but what about open innovation? The concept has been around for a while but will it eventually...

In a landmark High Court ruling, the use of predicting coding (or machine learning) has been admitted in a litigation disclosure exercise.

The long-awaited new song from the rock band Radiohead, Burn the Witch, was recently released to critical acclaim. The accompanying music...

IBM's "Watson" computer made headlines in 2011 when it triumphed in a head-to-head contest against record-breaking human winners of...

The US Supreme Court, in 2014, issued a judgement in Alice Corp. v CLS Bank International, that many feared would substantially end the...

Although having been talked about for a number of years, the Internet of Things appears to have not yet truly got off the ground. 

The...

Advances in sequencing technology over the last decade have resulted in the production of an astonishing amount of data. It is therefore...

Although the precise causes of Alzheimer's disease remain unknown, one hypothesis which has been under investigation for some time is...

It might sound like the sort of thing Arthur C Clarke or HG Wells might have dreamt up, but the "Hyperloop" took another small step...

Each day seems to bring a new claim in the media that the gut microbiota (gut microflora) is implicated in a new disease or condition:...

Similar to the technologies from the space sector being transferred into terrestrial applications, that I discussed in my post 

CAR T-cell therapy, which utilizes the body's own immune system to fight cancer, is a rapidly expanding, and very promising, field of...

Fans of comedian John Oliver might have seen his recent rant about low standards in science journalism (and if you haven't already...

In Chris' post yesterday we highlighted the potential for compounds found in tapeworms to offer a boost to the immune system.

Some tastier...

In an interesting move, that could benefit a number of private space companies, NASA has released dozens of its patented technologies...

The latest innovation announced by the prolific Dr. Robert Langer and colleagues at MIT looks remarkable. A polysiloxane-containing cream...

The Unified Patent Court is edging ever-closer to reality. Recently both Bulgaria and Italy have taken steps towards ratifying the...

In most countries in Europe, Intellectual Property (IP) arising from academic research is owned by the academic institutions, not the...

It is thought that Victorian dieters would swallow beef tapeworm cysts, usually in the form of a pill, based on the theory that the...

Recent decisions of the US Courts have had a significant impact on the prospects for obtaining useful protection for life sciences...

Nobody wants to publish negative results. It's a familiar story to anyone who (like me) spent years as an experimental scientist, tearing...

It is wonders of the universe such as these which got me hooked on physics many years ago, particularly astronomical events that we can...

Registered designs are cheap and straightforward to obtain, with protection being granted almost immediately in the UK and Europe....

HTC has formed a new innovation based company. Rumours are that its main focus will be virtual reality. Virtual reality is a rapidly...