Having handled patent cases for more than 20 years, I have lost count of the number of times clients have asked “How do I patent software?”, or state that “Software is not patentable in the UK or Europe”. My answer has always been…
A successful six-month trial to test the world’s first pop-up electric vehicle charge point in a residential street in Oxford has paved the way for a wider roll-out, say its designers. The UEOne pop-up charge-point, has been developed and manufactured by...
Normally, having to face moving goalposts would be a bad thing, but it is proving to be beneficial when it comes to IP deadlines falling during the Covid-19 pandemic. For now, deadlines before the UK Intellectual Property Office remain extended under the...
Following on from Part 1, we explore further questions relating to applying for and owning a patent, particularly cases where there are multiple owners. As a patent is a form of property, how does it work to have two or more joint owners? In the...
A quick summary of two relatively recent court decisions in the UK explaining why having a British granted patent now gives you generally greater protection under the newly adopted ‘doctrine of equivalents’ without the limitation of ‘file history estoppel’....
