Andrew Fearnside - March 6, 2024 Inside Silicon Quantum Computing: an interview with Komal Pahwa Senior IP counsel Komal Pahwa reveals how Australia's star quantum startup is building a silicon ...
Tom Furnival - February 14, 2024 The major players in the SEP landscape in Europe Next in our series of blogs, we have investigated the major players in the SEP landscape in Europe.
Tom Furnival - December 19, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? – Part 3 This article continues our series of blogs investigating whether or not declaring your patent or ...
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 ...
Tom Furnival - September 20, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? – Part 2 This article is the latest in a series of blogs exploring whether declaring your patent or ...
Andrew Fearnside - August 21, 2023 The world beyond quantum computing Infleqtion is developing the next generation of quantum tools, including clocks, gravimeters and ...
Tom Furnival - August 7, 2023 How does declaring a patent or application as “essential to a standard” affect the pre-grant experience of an application? This article is the latest in a series of blogs exploring whether declaring your patent or ...
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 ...
Charlotte Lynch - August 16, 2022 Standards, SEPs, and FRAND agreements - an overview The terms “standards,” “SEPs,” and “FRAND agreements,” are increasingly being mentioned in the ...
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, ...
Andrew Fearnside - May 5, 2022 UK Government expands R&D Tax Relief to cover Quantum, AI and Robotics research The recently published 2022 Spring Statement1 indicates support for a “new culture of enterprise” ...
Andrew Fearnside - April 7, 2022 The NISQ-era: a quantum stepping-stone In our previous blog, ‘Noisy quantum computing: overcoming quantum decoherence’, we discussed how ...
Andrew Fearnside - March 30, 2022 A trillion times more powerful: the race to produce the world's first quantum computer chip Meet the British startup on the brink of winning the race to produce the world's first ...
Florian Zobel - March 30, 2022 2022 changes to EPO Guidelines: highlights With the 2021 changes to the examination guidelines, the EPO changed its schedule for issuing ...
Robert Worboys - March 15, 2022 Time to cash out? Will a fully cashless society ever become a reality in the UK? A cashless society describes an economic state whereby financial transactions are entirely ...
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 ...
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 ...
Andrew Fearnside - November 17, 2021 Venturing ahead: helping Munich make its name in quantum tech Christopher Trummer, managing director of the TUM Venture Lab Quantum, explains why ...
Robert Worboys - November 16, 2021 Pulse of Fintech H1 ’21 – investments in fintech are growing and diversifying KPMG have recently published their biannual report ‘Pulse of Fintech’, which provides a detailed ...
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 ...
Lucy Coe - September 21, 2021 The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Internet of Things We are at the start of a technological revolution that will fundamentally change the way we live, ...
Andrew Fearnside - August 5, 2021 Quantum System One: is Europe ready? With quantum start-ups now appearing across the globe and tech giants such as IBM edging ever ...
Andrew Fearnside - July 7, 2021 Creating qubits: Making progress with photonics Forward spoke with Jelmer Renema of Dutch firm QuiX about why photonics technology has so much ...
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 ...
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 ...
Andrew Fearnside - May 11, 2021 Creating qubits: a hot lead at ColdQuanta Mark Saffman tells Forward why an atomic approach has all the hallmarks of a winning quantum ...
Helen Bower - May 10, 2021 EPO Opposition Trends in Engineering, Electronics and Software Special Report In autumn 2020, we analysed more than 8000 opposition cases filed at the European Patent Office ...
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 ...
Andrew Fearnside - April 15, 2021 Shock treatment: what’s behind the race to crack quantum? As the UK begins work towards realising world-beating ambitions, Forward set out to learn just what ...
Daniel Brodsky - April 14, 2021 Patenting a software invention at the UKIPO: a case study In a recent success for one of our clients, we overcame an objection raised by the UKIPO that the ...
Andrew Fearnside - March 29, 2021 PsiQuantum expect commercial quantum computer by 2025 By 2025, the team from secretive quantum computing firm PsiQuantum will have a commercial quantum ...
Sarah Harvey - March 23, 2021 EPO 2020 Patent Index - key trends The European Patent Office (EPO) recently published its 2020 Patent Index which provides a ...
James Leach - March 11, 2021 EPO confirms that the COMVIK approach to assessing patent eligibility is applicable to computer simulations (G1/19) The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) has now issued their decision G1/19, which concerns the ...
Dan Thornton - March 2, 2021 Working together to define future mobility The fourth industrial revolution – big data – blockchain – artificial intelligence – machine ...
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 ...
Rob Walker - February 22, 2021 Autonomous vehicles: into reverse or about to shift up a gear? While the past 12 months have been a rocky ride for much of the automotive industry, one section ...
Lucy Coe - February 17, 2021 Top 5 fields of technology for Internet of Things (IoT) patenting The term “internet of things (IoT)” has often been mentioned in recent years, but what does it ...
Alex Burns - January 26, 2021 How to patent your digital health apps – 5 key considerations As the technical capabilities of smartphones continue to rise at an exponential rate, so too do the ...
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 ...
Tom Furnival - December 17, 2020 Ericsson accuses Samsung of un-FRAND-ly patent negotiations Following on from Unwired Planet v Huawei, Ericsson have launched a complaint in the US District ...
James Leach - December 7, 2020 Software inventions at the European Patent Office: an in-depth study It is sometimes difficult to obtain patent protection for inventions relating to software, in part ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - December 1, 2020 Düsseldorf Regional Court refers Nokia vs. Daimler licensing dispute to CJEU As anticipated, the Düsseldorf Regional Court, in its decision Nokia ./. Daimler (4c O 17/19) ...
Andrew Fearnside - November 18, 2020 Quantum braiding: an introduction to topological quantum computing In our previous blog, ‘Noisy quantum computing: overcoming quantum decoherence’, we discussed the ...
Andrew Fearnside - November 6, 2020 Britain launches largest industry-led project to commercialise the use of quantum computing On 6 November 2020, Britain launched its largest industry-led quantum computing project, DISCOVERY, ...
Dan Thornton - October 15, 2020 Robotic distancing Minimising person to person contact is the major weapon in reducing COVID-19 viral transmission. In ...
Juliana Murray - October 14, 2020 Facebook’s Quest to bring Virtual Reality to the Masses As explained in our article “Mixed reality: Is it the blend that will boost human wellbeing?”, ...
Robert Worboys - October 13, 2020 An introduction into extended reality (XR): the next level in 2020 vision Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term covering technologies that merge the physical ‘real ...
Tom Furnival - October 6, 2020 Mixed reality: Is it the blend that will boost human wellbeing? From simulating the evaluation of cardiovascular patients to turning CT scans into 3D holograms, ...
Juliana Murray - September 23, 2020 Computer-implemented inventions at the UKIPO: a case review As discussed in our Patentability of Software and Business Method Inventions in Europe information ...
James Leach - September 9, 2020 Light speed AI: sci-fi buzzwords or computing reality? In recent years, there has been rapid acceleration in quantum computing development and industry ...
Andrew Fearnside - September 9, 2020 Post-quantum cryptography – a new hope The race to build a large-scale quantum computer is one of the most exciting technology challenges ...
Andrew Fearnside - September 8, 2020 Noisy quantum computing: overcoming quantum decoherence Anticipated as the next great leap in human technology, quantum computing promises to revolutionise ...
Tom Furnival - August 26, 2020 Unwired Planet v Huawei – the Supreme Court’s FRAND(ly) judgement Published Wednesday 26th August 2020, the Supreme Court has handed down their long anticipated ...
Dan Thornton - August 21, 2020 Smart phones and intoxication detection On the 18th of August 2020, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh published a paper ...
Christoph Moeller - August 18, 2020 Nokia vs. Daimler - FRAND defence does not apply Breaking News in Nokia vs. Daimler (2 O 34/19) - (FRAND/SEP case)
Andrew Fearnside - August 17, 2020 Quantum computing: Why qubits have consequences for IP As part of our Thought Leaders series, Mewburn Ellis Senior Associate Andrew Fearnside explores ...
James Leach - August 12, 2020 Five things you (really) need to know about patenting software in Europe We often receive enquiries asking whether a particular software-related invention might be eligible ...
Christoph Moeller - July 15, 2020 Landmark judgement in German FRAND case Sisvel vs. Haier On May 5, 2020, the Cartel Senate of the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) held the oral hearing ...
Camille Terfve - July 14, 2020 Can software be therapeutic? The simple answer is: yes. Thanks for reading this post, stay tuned for more answers to your ...
Tom Furnival - June 9, 2020 Mitsubishi Electric to embark on 5G testing programme In a recent press release Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that Japan’s Ministry of ...
John Addiss - February 4, 2020 Patenting the Internet of Things – the European perspective It is estimated that by 2025 there will be 26-30 billion devices in the workplace and home equipped ...
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 ...
Christoph Moeller - October 26, 2019 FRAND Licensing of SEPs in the age of connected cars Cars are developing more and more into computerized mobile platforms. They relieve the driver of ...
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 ...
Graeme Moore - May 29, 2019 The journey of rLoop - a new technology innovation network disrupting the world of transport and IP As a child growing up in Blackburn, near Manchester, UK, Ilyas Vali dreamed of owning a dog. He ...
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, ...
Graeme Moore - December 13, 2018 Blockchain: the next patent boom Emma Graham and Graeme Moore attended the EPO’s “Patenting Blockchain” conference in The Hague – ...
