In June this year Europol Operation Pirates 1 took place seizing fake goods including counterfeit pharmaceuticals worth over €33m. Then between April and October another operation seized over 10.5 million medicinal products worth over €40m.
The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal has issued a decision favouring patent applicants on the often tricky question of priority. This may come as a relief to US-based applicants, particularly with pre-AIA priority applications.
Healthwashing is the term used to describe the act of making a product (most frequently a food or drink) appear healthier than it is by making certain claims.
Earlier this year the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics, ETIP PV, published a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, SIRA. The purpose is to guide Europe’s clean energy transition to success, in part through setting out the current performance of PV technology and explaining why and how to go further.
Criticisms of the UK Prime Minister’s recent announcement that several net zero policies will be diluted are fuelling debate on whether the UK can continue to lead on climate action if it is seen as back-tracking on climate policies.
Ben Lincoln looks at commercial innovation in connecting BESS to the grid, including some of the battery tech patents that have more of a focus on battery management, operation of grid connections and energy trading.
We look at the various forms of patent claim available for PV inventions and provide tips for seeking patent protection.
Where traditional chemical synthesis is faltering, however, molecular and synthetic biology is providing solutions.
Innovation - and by extension IP - has never been more important for cleantech companies. However the opportunities and need to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies prompts one question: is your innovation strategy fit for purpose?
Patent offices around the world typically do a good job of examining applications so that only the patents that meet the requirements, including novelty and inventiveness, make it through to grant. However, this is not always the case. Ben Lincoln considers the challenges being made against battery patents.
Ben Lincoln looks at the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to energy storage technologies, and why protecting the IP involved is not straightforward, but nonetheless important.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, machine learning is becoming a tool that is used in many technological fields. In the field of batteries and energy storage, the opportunities to apply AI and machine learning techniques are wide-ranging.
Even with software becoming a common part of most energy technologies to some degree, there is still a lot of confusion out there as to what is actually possible in relation to protecting the software elements.
Harnessing solar energy, our most abundant renewable energy resource, has enormous potential for climate change mitigation. Solar photovoltaic, PV, technologies will play a central role in this harnessing, and its characteristics and near-term forecasts are encouraging.
Today every business is a digital business. If you don’t believe me, think about the following scenarios: