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Camille Terfve - October 29, 2024 Alchemab: the art of AI antibody discovery Alchemab’s artificial intelligence platform enables the identification of antibodies for some of ...
Charlotte Lynch - September 17, 2024 How could NASA tech benefit postmenopausal women? Over 14,000 postmenopausal women in England may benefit from the recent approval of new ...
Sarah Harvey - August 23, 2024 The Science of Success: Optimising Female Athletic Performance For the first time in Olympic history, the Paris 2024 Games achieved gender parity among athletes. ...
Emma Graham - August 14, 2024 King’s Speech: AI implications for IP Featuring in The Patent Lawyer Magazine, Emma Graham explores what the King's Speech said about AI, ...
Alex Burns - July 19, 2024 An emotional day - The Court of Appeal reverses the High Court’s earlier judgment Today, the Court of Appeal handed down its hotly-anticipated judgment in the Emotional Perception ...
Joshua Tall - July 5, 2024 Quantum Technology in Denmark Mewburn Ellis is excited to announce that we now have a part-time office at The BioInnovation ...
Emma Kennaugh-Gallacher - June 28, 2024 Living with artificial intelligence: can the law cope? As part of our Thought Leaders series, we explore the copyright issues arising from AI-generated ...
Charlotte Lynch - June 4, 2024 The HPV vaccine: the global success of prioritising women’s health Let's talk about the HPV vaccine - a revolutionary drug and global strategy that proved how ...
Camille Terfve - May 31, 2024 How data changed our understanding and care of breast cancer Breast cancer does not only affect women, but it mostly affects them1. Breast cancer is the most ...
Alex Burns - May 16, 2024 English Courts consider the patentability of AI My colleague, Rebecca Frith and I viewed the Court of Appeal hearing in the Emotional Perception AI ...
Camille Terfve - April 26, 2024 The brilliant dawn of AI drug discovery Computer simulations are solving challenges previously thought uncrackable.
Joanna Smith - April 26, 2024 Medical devices: Insights through IP - new report 2024 We are delighted to release our latest report Medical devices: Insights through IP which looks at ...
Callum Anderson - March 13, 2024 Can AI help to improve the biopsy process for patients? In medicine, a biopsy is a procedure that involves taking a small sample of body tissue so it can ...
Daniel Brodsky - March 8, 2024 Robotics in surgery For many, the word ‘surgery’ suggests images of surgeons operating with handheld instruments ...
Callum Anderson - March 6, 2024 Laparoscopic AI AI in the OR Copying music, making bad art and training the next generation of surgeons, just some ...
Rebecca Brooks - February 29, 2024 Updates to the Guidelines for Examination at the EPO The Guidelines for Examination at the EPO (which will be referred to as “the Guidelines” in this ...
Isobel Fisher - February 22, 2024 Colony picking robot expands our knowledge of human gut microbiome The human microbiome is very diverse. A typical gut microbiome can contain hundreds or even ...
Thomas Lonsdale - January 30, 2024 Plant based leather - the eco-friendly alternative hitting the catwalks Vegan leather isn’t only an ecofriendly alternative, which isn’t made from animals. It’s also being ...
Emily Lythell - January 26, 2024 Gouda vibes only – AI cooks up vegan meat and cheese alternatives The Kraft Heinz Company has recently introduced three new vegan sliced cheese varieties in the ...
Joe Egelstaff - January 16, 2024 AI bias in healthcare AI tools are increasingly being used in healthcare settings, with applications ranging from ...
Alex Burns - November 28, 2023 Emotional Perception AI v UKIPO: Is this the dawning of a new era for AI-related inventions at the UKIPO? On 21 November 2023, Mann J handed down his judgment on Emotional Perception AI Ltd v ...
Andrew Mears - May 15, 2023 Medtech: the future for mental health? When we think of medical technology, or ‘medtech’, more often than not we think about systems or ...
Alex Burns - May 5, 2023 Gene sequencing accelerates with custom hardware The cost to sequence a genome continues to drop exponentially. Over the past 20 years, the cost to ...
Callum Anderson - April 4, 2023 Motion capture and AI in healthcare When most of us hear the term motion capture, we tend to think of special effects in films and ...
Jacqueline Murphy - March 14, 2023 Femtech: a growth industry - new special report We are delighted to release our latest report Femtech: a growth industry.
Alex Burns - March 2, 2023 Can an AI win copyright protection? As part of our Thought Leaders series, we explore artificial intelligence and copyright. Forward: ...
Christopher Casley - February 9, 2023 AI and Tech innovation stands out in a slow year for pharma deals Last year saw a drop in the number and value of deals performed in the biotech and pharma sector ...
Lucy Coe - January 30, 2023 Can AI and IOT support environmental sustainability Advances in software-based technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and The Internet of ...
James Leach - October 19, 2022 AI at the UKIPO – a more patent friendly approach? The UKIPO recently issued new guidance relating to examining patent applications relating to ...
Camille Terfve - October 17, 2022 Bioinformatics at the UK IPO – what does the new Guidance mean for applicants? As recently publicised, the UK IPO recently issued new guidance relating to examining patent ...
Richard Johnson - August 8, 2022 IP as an enabler for AI: UK government shows its hand The recently published response of the UK government to a consultation on the interface between ...
James Leach - May 11, 2022 Talking with machines: AI, language, and cognition “A reader lives a thousand lives before they die”. From Homer to Sophocles, Shakespeare to Orwell, ...
Toby Hill - February 9, 2022 AI spotlight: Google’s DeepMind takes on competitive programming – have we reached a tipping point? On 2 February, Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, announced that it has ...
Karolina Fryzlewicz - January 27, 2022 AI, IP and SMEs: jurisdictional clues about copyright solutions for start-ups Our world is passing through an era of explosive technological innovation. New technologies are ...
Tom Furnival - December 24, 2021 Board of Appeal confirms DABUS AI cannot be an inventor for a European patent application On 21st December 2021 the EPO rejected the two appeals filed by Dr Thaler concerning whether an ...
Alex Burns - November 22, 2021 The smart healthcare revolution – what does it mean for patent attorneys? In 2020 the EPO published a report on the global trends in patent applications for “Fourth ...
Camille Terfve - November 12, 2021 Digital therapeutics: the rise of digital health technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic There is no denying that the Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped many aspects of our lives. Those lucky ...
Tom Furnival - September 24, 2021 Qualcomm unveils world's first 5G, AI-enabled, autonomous drone In their latest offering, the Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform, Qualcomm are cementing themselves as ...
Richard Johnson - September 22, 2021 DABUS decision: AI cannot be patent inventor, UK Court of Appeal rules On 21 September 2021, the UK Court of Appeal rejected an appeal raised by Dr. Stephen Thaler, who ...
Rob Walker - June 24, 2021 The future of autonomous vehicles on land and sea In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Chris Cattley and Rob Walker discuss the future of autonomous ...
Camille Terfve - May 20, 2021 Intellectual property and artificial intelligence in the UK: what might the future hold? AI is a hot topic for the current UK government. Last year, the UK Intellectual Property Office ...
Nathan Zhang - May 20, 2021 Materials informatics: a data-based approach to materials discovery Research into new materials with desirable properties has been one of the most long-standing ...
Joseph Newcombe - April 26, 2021 COVID-19 win for AI pharma farmers The vaccine roll-out is in action all over the world. Nevertheless, given the propensity of ...
Richard Johnson - March 1, 2021 Developments in patenting activity in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Humans generate a mind-boggling amount of data each day. This explosion in data has stimulated ...
Urs Ferber - January 21, 2021 Deep neural networks: of dogs, muffins, and self-driving cars You may have come across the “animals vs. food” picture quiz on the internet. One example is ...
Camille Terfve - December 3, 2020 Deep learning cracks the protein folding problem? Deep learning has just made a new headline grabbing achievement: DeepMind’s latest AI-powered ...
Camille Terfve - April 23, 2020 Coronavirus (COVID-19), big data and silver linings There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic will have tremendous practical and economic impact ...
James Leach - January 20, 2020 AI: Machine learning - the when’s and the how’s of machine learning In our recent post on the use of artificial intelligence in bioinformatics, it was highlighted that ...
Camille Terfve - January 2, 2020 AI, deep learning and image analysis in bioinformatics Putting “AI” in the title of your paper, or indeed in the name of your company, seems to have ...
James Leach - December 13, 2019 AI: Machine learning - what is the machine actually learning? Following on from Richard Johnson’s blog post “Inventive AI: can machines innovate?” we now focus ...
Richard Johnson - October 7, 2019 Inventive AI: can machines innovate? The integration of technology based on artificial intelligence into our everyday lives continues ...
Richard Johnson - September 6, 2019 When AI met EQ Affective computing may be a multi-billion -dollar business, but much of how it works remains ...
Christoph Moeller - June 26, 2019 Data and security issues in a world of connected cars Mobility patterns are changing and technological innovations in electrification, connectivity and ...
Emma Graham - February 26, 2019 How to patent AI technology at the EPO Once only a figment of the imagination in literature such as Mark Shelley’s Frankenstein, ...
