27th Nov 2023
Companies active in nuclear fission-based power have historically filed relatively few patents. It is likely that this was because problems encountered in their nuclear power plant development were specific to individual power plants. Why protect the resulting inventions if they were unlikely to be used elsewhere? However, the development of modular reactors such as small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced modular reactors (AMRs) could change this mindset. Suddenly, the product becomes scalable, capable of being built in factories and exported around the world. There is more potential to licence technology, or sell modular units, and therefore patents for this technology may become more valuable.
13th Jun 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots that use foundational large language models (LLMs), supervised and reinforcement learning techniques are currently of high interest, but what about the patentability of such chatbots and systems?
7th Jun 2023
Earlier this year, the UK Government’s newly formed Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) published their ‘National Quantum Strategy’. In this blog, we highlight some interesting aspects of the report, and also bring attention to its implementation since publication.
16th May 2023
Quantum technologies, including quantum computing, have been rapidly advancing over the last couple of decades. In this insight, we discuss some of the basic principles of quantum computing, and some of the recent patent trends.
2nd May 2023
Space is a nascent sector in which new opportunities for growth are uncertain. However, space is becoming increasingly accessible.
6th Apr 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates its 75th birthday tomorrow, 7 April, marking another World Health Day.
30th Mar 2023
30 March 2023 marks ‘Energy Security Day’, when the UK Government launches its revised net zero and energy security strategy.
24th Mar 2023
The Enlarged Board of Appeal’s (EBA) ʺPlausibilityʺ decision (G 2/21) was issued on 23 March 2023 just 4-months after the hearing which took place on 24 November 2022.