Aeronautical

Participants in the Aeronautical field are currently striving to achieve some extremely challenging goals. In particular, climate change concerns are driving a race for technical innovations to accelerate and facilitate the adoption of less polluting and more efficient engines, and cleaner fuels.

We are seeing exciting developments in the field. Significant advances in fuel economy and reductions in emissions of gas turbine engines are being achieved in the aero sector, and our engineering team is working at the core of those developments. Looking further ahead, we expect to see many more new technologies and solutions emerge and be developed in order to reduce emissions, such as increasingly electrified power systems. However, implementation of such technologies is often considerably less straightforward to achieve in the aero sector than in the automotive sector.

Of course, developments in this sector are not limited to the aircraft. We can expect developments in areas as wide ranging as: health monitoring; maintenance, repair and overhaul techniques; and autonomous operation.

Our Aeronautical team offers a unique combination of sector-focussed expertise, and comprises a blend of Physicists, Chemists, and Engineers, including specialist Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineers. Our team is able to leverage many years of patent practice in a wide range of technologies including: gas turbines, turbochargers, heave compensation and dynamic positioning, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, control systems, and composite materials (particularly sustainable composites).

This powerful fusion of expertise enables us to work seamlessly with clients to build a dynamic IP portfolio that underpins their strategic goals and aspirations.

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EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software

In autumn 2020, we analysed more than 8000 opposition cases filed at the European Patent Office (EPO) over the last 12 years, studying the timelines for hundreds of engineering, electronics and software oppositions.

The research enabled us to see how oppositions have been affected by procedural changes at the European Patent Office and by the Covid-19 pandemic. With a focus on Transport, Medical Devices, Telecommunications and Software, the report also looks at how opposition outcomes vary across the four different technology sectors and which players are the most active.

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FORWARD MAGAZINE

Mewburn Ellis Forward is a biannual publication that celebrates the best of innovation and exploration. Through its pages we hope to inform and entertain, but also to encourage discussion about the most compelling developments taking place in the scientific and entrepreneurial world. Along the way, we’ll engage with the IP challenges that international organisations face every day.