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Our services are centred around intellectual property that can be registered. We protect innovation, design, and branding across all sectors of industry, and at all stages in the supply chain.

For each IP right we offer services covering strategic advice, pre-registration searches, registrations and renewals, oppositions and dispute resolution. We handle work throughout the world, working with local colleagues in over 100 countries.

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Our attorneys specialise in one or more sectors of industry, which enables them to provide quality advice with a commercial focus.

Our patent specialists have detailed understanding of the background technology, which ensures that your patent applications are prepared with the correct scope, reducing the likelihood of challenges from third parties and objections from the patent office.

They also advise whether other forms of protection would be more appropriate. Our brand specialists work with brand managers for leading brands and their advice is commercially focussed making sure that you get the best value from your budget.

14th Feb 2024

What Next for Patenting Software Implemented Artificial Neural Network Inventions in the UK?

A recent Judgment, Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2023] EWHC 2948, in relation to an appeal against a decision of the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has paved the way for the UKIPO to (at least temporarily) adjust its approach to dealing with patent applications that relate to artificial neural networks (ANNs).

20th Dec 2023

The Supreme Court puts the question of AI owned inventions to rest – at least for now

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.

11th Dec 2023

How a Recent Judgment in the UK Regarding Patenting AI-based Inventions May Influence IP Strategy for AI Innovators

There is no hiding from the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) has well and truly burst onto the scene. Although research into AI has been going on for decades, it is only within the last few years that we have witnessed an explosion of AI applications with profound implications.

9th Nov 2023

Intellectual Property Rights Improve Funding and Exit Performance of European Start-ups

A new joint study by the European Patent Office (EPO) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that start-ups which file applications for registered Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – including patents, trademarks, and designs – demonstrate a higher likelihood of securing funding from Venture Capital firms (VCs) and achieving favourable exit outcomes for their investors.

27th Sep 2023

The Rise of ChatGPT: Considerations for the Patent Drafting Process

With the advent of ChatGPT, talk has turned to whether or not the bots are coming for our jobs. As industries become more reliant upon and integrated with artificial intelligence, the intellectual property industry finds itself at a technological juncture.  We must be mindful and consider the implications of AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, on the patent system. This raises the query for inventors and patent attorneys alike: “should we be using ChatGPT to draft patents?” In this article, I aim to explore some of the key considerations when navigating the patent prosecution process at the dawn of ChatGPT.

10th Aug 2023

Quantum Supremacy: The Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Era and Beyond

As established in our previous quantum computing blog here, there is undoubtedly still a substantial amount of research and investment required to realise the full potential of quantum computing. At present, researchers have their sights set on achieving so-called ‘quantum supremacy’: the point at which quantum computers can solve a problem that no classical computer could feasibly solve.

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