Intellectual Property
From patent law to intellectual property theft, here find all you need to know about your organisation’s most valuable asset: intellectual property.
Can tech tackle counterfeit fashion?
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but counterfeit fashion products are costing the real deal in both reputation and revenue; new technology might be an answer
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7 crucial IP steps on your innovation journey
Whether you design dresses or tech gadgets, both tangible and intangible assets need to be protected. So how does a business manage the intellectual property of a new product? Using a fictional product, tracked throughout its product development cycle, here is a step-by-step guide
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Are the right-to-repair laws fair?
Manufacturers have long built products so consumers can't fix them themselves, but growing demand for a circular economy and less e-waste could soon change all that
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Protect IP or risk a business disaster
A significant information gap remains around intellectual property’s commercial potential and the catastrophic consequences companies are risking for not taking it seriously
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Fighting for rights for AI inventors
A team at the University of Surrey has filed the first patents to list an artificial intelligence “creation machine” as the inventor
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Is US regulation a threat to innovation?
Experts debate whether America’s patent rules are favouring larger organisations over independent inventors
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Can you steal the ‘feel’ of a song?
The rise of copyright infringement cases raises serious questions about the future of the music industry, as creative freedom and protecting intellectual property continue to be challenged
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Open source technology, enabling innovation
The collaborative nature of open source technology is enabling innovation at an astonishing rate and could hold the key to future breakthroughs
Intellectual Property Infographics
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Open source: sharing patents to speed up innovation
The collaborative nature of open source technology is enabling innovation at an astonishing rate and could hold the key to future breakthroughs
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Stamping out trademark theft in China
The collaborative nature of open source technology is enabling innovation at an astonishing rate and could hold the key to future breakthroughs
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Should a computer be recognised as an inventor?
The collaborative nature of open source technology is enabling innovation at an astonishing rate and could hold the key to future breakthroughs
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Unpicking the IP legal tangle of Brexit
The collaborative nature of open source technology is enabling innovation at an astonishing rate and could hold the key to future breakthroughs