As we approach the summer, many of us enjoy a refreshing cold beer to quench our thirst on a warm day. From ancient origins to modern craft creations, beer has been a British staple for thousands of years, and continues to bubble with innovation, creativity and protected ideas in the 21st century.
...shell to house the mechanism. This shell can be protected via a design right. Before going to market the firm will create a product/brand name protected via a trade mark....
This year, the Office for the Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM) celebrated 10 years of the Community Design. The event celebrated a relatively new development in IP - the...
The Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid observed almost three centuries ago, There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. In the intellectual property field,...
In the words of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: The most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. For economic analysis of IP, this is...
Today’s blog outlines the evaluation of the Fast-tracking Green Patent Applications authored by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, researcher at London School Economics (LSE), who presents his findings at the IPO today. Fast-track...
What is in a name? A blog by any other name would still tell as complete. As noted earlier, our name, IPO Facto is a play on IPO and ipso...
I have written this blog along side guest author Rebecca Villis, IPO’s Head of Innovation Policy. It outlines the first major evaluation of the impact of the Lambert Toolkit ,...
Today (20 May 2013) is the IPO sponsored 'Patent Research Workshop'. The event hosted by Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) will showcase three soon-to-be published reports from the IPO's...
The Economics, Research and Evidence (ERE) team at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is pleased to start blogging under the category 'IPO Facto'. We will use this blog as a...
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