Legislation & Skills

Michael Jaeger, patent attorney at leading UK patent and trade mark attorneys Withers & Rogers LLP, writes: GB Patent Number: GB2488238 Granted to: Jaguar Land Rover Limited One of the consequences of living in an automated society is that while most of us were living life in the slow lane on Christmas Day, the publication servers of the UK Intellectual Property Office ...

When ordinary activities like using Wi-Fi in a coffee shop or updating smartphone apps provokes lawsuits you know something is seriously amiss with the legal system. That has been the state of play for some time in the US – but perhaps not for much longer. Recently US president Barack Obama announced a series of measures that he hopes will ...

GB Patent Number: 2483006 Granted to: Awarepoint Corporation I was really quite shocked last week when listening to a news report about ‘never events’. These are serious surgical blunders which are preventable and should never have happened. Examples of such ‘never events’ include operating on the wrong body part and leaving instruments in a patient after surgery, the latter of ...

White space technologies could potentially be launched in the UK towards the end of 2013, says Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive

It seems that hardly another day goes by without another global consumer electronics giant filing a patent lawsuit against another, writes Alan MacDougall, a Chartered Patent Attorney and partner at IP advisers Mathys & Squire LLP.

Small and medium-sized businesses should not let an expectation that their invention will have a limited commercial lifespan stop them from obtaining patent protection and benefiting from tax relief linked to the incoming Patent Box.

Guest columnist Peter Winnington-Ingram, senior site director at Plexus, looks at the impact the recently adopted RoHS 2.0 EU Directive will have on the development of medical systems

Henar Dyson, a solicitor at law firm, Thomson Snell & Passmore, outlines the legal obligations of firms in conforming to the WEEE Directive on the disposal of electronic products and packaging waste

Is it real or wilful ignorance that permits us to foul our own planet with Styrofoam cups and rusted batteries? Would we curb our wasteful activities if only we knew the error of our ways? Technophiles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think so, and to equip the public with the knowledge we need to change our behaviour they've tagged our technological trash with GPS chips and tracked it across the globe. "Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up," says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Senseable City Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A court date has been set for the UK's largest ever investigation into the illegal exportation of e-waste.