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Do I have to identify the designer?
It is possible to waive the name of the designer when filing a European Community Design, but you should be sure that you have the rights to the design
Prior art searching is one of the most difficult things to get right in the IP sector, since any search is open-ended. How do you know whether there is a knockout document which discloses something identical to your invention that has just not been found, or whether it just does not exist?
Many designers spend months and even years working on a development, only to encounter numerous barriers and hurdles raised by the Patent Office when trying to patent it. In many scenarios, the issue with the patent application is that...
Just imagine: you have spent years working on a brilliant idea which will make your fortune, only to find that four or five years down the line, the scrooges at the Patent Office refuse to acknowledge the patentability of your invention....
Something that comes up time and time again when new inventors are thinking about how best to protect their idea is whether a patent is worthwhile. Often, there is some hesitation as to whether the trade secrets of Coca-Cola and...
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is probably a duck, or so goes the old adage. “A quackers idea for a patent” Let’s assume, for a moment, that I have invented a robotic duck to keep me company, and have...
James Dyson – Britain’s answer to the billionaire-genius philanthropist – has been helming the James Dyson Foundation since 2002, and one of the keynote components of the foundation is the awarding of the "James Dyson Award", an annual prize...
Have you ever fancied yourself pitching your ideas to the business moguls over at Dragon’s Den? Year 9 at Cheltenham College did not have to imagine recently, as we sent our very own Will Doherty to officiate, mentor and judge the students at...
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics has been announced, and has been split between three eminent, and, as the papers like to point out, British-born, professors: David Thouless; Duncan Haldane; and Michael Kosterlitz. The award has been made for...
