29th Jan 2024
Today (January 29th) marks World Automobile Day. It was exactly 138 years ago today that Karl Benz applied for Patent# 37435 for ‘a vehicle powered by a gas engine’. It brought the concept of the automobile to the world and transformed our expectations of personal mobility.
23rd Jan 2024
The NatWest Group have just launched a new lending proposition for high-growth businesses that enables them to borrow against the value of their IP portfolio.
22nd Jan 2024
Reddie & Grose was named as a leading firm in patent filing in the 2024 JUVE Patent UK rankings. Meet our recognised team.
17th Jan 2024
Between scoffing mince pies and watching Die Hard (again), I found time over the festive period to watch David Attenborough’s latest documentary series, Planet Earth III. While the shots were predictably spectacular and the animals suitably fascinating, this time around the series focused much more on the destruction of the natural world due to human activity. The tear-jerking stories included a family of African elephants facing decimation following climate change induced drought; a Brazilian maned wolf and her pups narrowly avoiding disaster as their grassland home is burned to make way for agriculture; and numerous sea turtles trapped in floating plastic detritus.
11th Jan 2024
At the end of November the Board of Appeal (3.3.02) handed down its decision on T 116/18. As a reminder, T 116/18 was the case that led to G2/21; the referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on the standard required to rely on post-published evidence to support inventive step (the “plausibility” decision). A summary of that decision can be found here.
21st Dec 2023
Last week brought an end to German court proceedings between Riegele Brewery and Paulaner brewery over the name “Spezi”. The parties had been due to go head to head in an appeal before the Munich Higher Regional Court, before Riegele decided to withdraw its appeal.
21st Dec 2023
In an era defined by the urgent need for global sustainability, nuclear is one of the many technologies that must play its part. Throughout this series, we have looked at the critical role of intellectual property in driving innovation and economic progress, while shaping the course of the nuclear industry’s development. Published patent filings serve as a useful proxy for trends in innovation and investment. So, it’s certainly encouraging to see filings in the past decade beginning to return to levels last season in the 50s and 60s.
20th Dec 2023
The “creativity machine” DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience) was created by artificial neural networks (ANN) expert Dr Stephen Thaler. According to its creator, DABUS is the inventor of two inventions, including a food container discussed in patent application GB1816909.4, and a flashing beacon for attracting attention discussed in GB1818161.0.