IP Blueprint for Growth: Sound Strategy
Build an IP approach around your business plan - the two are intrinsically linked.
IP in product development
A step-by-step guide to protecting your intellectual property during the product development process.
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Best practice: Hackathons and IP
Hackathons and innovation go hand in hand; nonetheless, the team-based, often open nature of hackathons can jeopardise securing IP rights for a work developed during an event. For participants and organisers, how can these risks be mitigated to maximise IP generation and value?
IP Blueprint for Growth: Effective Innovation Capture
Do not underestimate the importance of robust processes and procedures.
The nature of parallel proceedings: EPO trumps Patents Court validity decision after just 2 days
This consequential judgment, handed down by Mr Justice Marcus Smith on 12 March 2021, addresses the repercussions deriving from two opposing conclusions having been reached, almost concurrently, by the Patents Court and the European Patent Office.
IP Blueprint for Growth: Clear Ownership
Clarity is everything. Make sure there are no grey areas on ownership of IP.
Makin them pay
The vital importance of a business’s IP rights featured heavily in Mr. Justice Zacaroli’s most recent High Court judgment, where the question for the Court was whether the Claimants could enforce certain terms in a settlement agreement against the Defendant, or whether these were unenforceable penalty clauses.
Using AI in medical diagnosis: Protecting patients and algorithms
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is used in everything from voice assistants and automated vehicles to digital therapeutics and drug discovery. One area that AI promises to revolutionise is medical diagnosis, where it has the potential to act as a vital tool for assisting medical professionals.
Road to recovery: The budget, SMEs and a new era for UK innovation
In last weeks budget, the importance of SMEs to the long-term recovery of the UK economy was underlined by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Encouragingly, there were some positive and tangible developments in the budget, which will provide valuable support for many of these SMEs.
IP Blueprint for Growth
This guide explains the five key ingredients that will put your organisation in the strongest IP position to attract and secure funding, distilled from our IP experts who have supported others through the funding process and understand the investor perspective.