The interest in Intellectual Property led entertainment does show how great rewards can coalesce around a single coherent vision, if the right steps are taken to protect what you have created.
This article was first published in October 2013, and has now been updated to included new relevant material In a previous article, I detailed the UK position on copyright, and how it arises automatically. With Nintendo having aggressively targeted a college student...
The UK formally leaves the EU today on, 31 January 2020. A transition period will run up until the end of 2020. Regardless of whether a modified version of the Withdrawal Agreement is negotiated, it is unlikely that the current draft proposals/terms relating to...
The United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the European Union on the 29 March 2019. Whilst the precise terms of exit are yet to be agreed, in March 2018, the European Commission and the UK published the first draft of a Withdrawal Agreement. This is the most...
Today, a great deal of published information about patents and patent applications is readily available for free on the Internet. The EPO’s excellent “Espacenet” service allows you to search for and view information on the vast majority of patent publications...
You can avoid large extra official fees when filing your US patent application by changing any multiple dependency claims to single dependency, so that your later claims only depend back to one previous claim.
By also limiting your claims to no more than three independent claims and to no more than twenty claims altogether, extra official fees will also be avoided.
