Ever since February 2005 Jane Lambert has provided 30 minutes of her time to up to 4 members of the public on the last day of every month a...

One of the delights of travelling through the New World is finding little bits of home beyond home. For example, when I was a graduate stude...

A patent, copyright, trade mark, registered design or other IP right is nothing more than a right to bring a law suit. Its purpose is to pro...

Just a reminder of the meeting of the Sheffield Inventors' Club on Monday 2 March at 18:00..    Prof Ron Jones will give the talk on how...

Over the 30 plus years that I have been at the English Bar I have seen far more businesses ruined by acquiring too much IP than too little. ...

Since October I have been making the rounds of the Northern inventors' clubs with my presentation, "The Coming Economic Downturn: H...

In  Forrester Ketley & Co v Brent [2008] EWHC 3150 (Ch) (19 Dec 2008) Mr. Justice Morgan had to deal with no less than 53 applications ...

Last week I blogged the patent application of Ryan Nicholls a 9-year old from NZ who has applied for a patent for an ingenious waste separa...

Ryan Nicholls, a 9 year old New Zealand child, has become his country's (and possibly the world's) youngest patent applicant. (see M...

We are delighted to announce a new IP clinic at Catcliffe near Rotherham.   We also have a new clinics website at www.nipc-clinics.co.uk p...

I spoke on this topic to the Leeds Inventors Club last night and have uploaded my slides to my Slideshare page .  I warned that the comin...

In the first few pages of their excellent book "The Business of Invention" , Peter Bissell and Graham Barker set out some bleak st...

A resource that other patent offices around the world would do well to emulate is the "Inventor Resources" page on the USPTO (US ...

I am honoured to have been invited to speak at “The Innovators Toolkit” a workshop to be held at Info Lab 21 at the University of Lancaster ...

I have uploaded the slides of my talk to Liverpool Inventors Club at the end of last month. Late, I know but I hope you will find they are w...

Advice that I give constantly to my clients is to carry out an intellectual property audit (see, for instance, " Acquiring Intellectua...

Last Thursday I gave a talk on information security and the law at Leeds Civic Hall to the West Yorkshire Information Security Users Group. ...

Today marks the anniversary of the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force and to celebrate that event the WIPO and its several mem...

I have added a new "Presentations" page to the site. The first of these are the slides for Miles Rees's excellent talk " ...

We have had many examples of the wrong way to develop an invention. Today we were shown the right way. Beautifully presented, Jayne Lawt...