Blog: Intellectual Property Office blog

Building (layer by layer!) on our previous post on 3D printing, today (19 November 2013) we are taking a look at some new work by our esteemed Patent Informatics colleagues....

...representatives of patent offices from around the world along with legal practitioners and industry Intellectual Property (IP) users. The conference presented findings from the survey of innovation and patent use...

This week the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published patent no. GB2,500,000.

WIPO reported that in 2011 global patent applications broke the two million mark. This journey is one of almost constant growth spanning more than two decades. Could such an increase herald a bright new future of global technological brilliance?

The European patent system is undergoing major reforms. These include the creation of a patent with unitary effect across Europe and a Unified Patent Court (UPC) to enforce the new patent right.