THE PATENT SEARCH BLOG

I've just heard about Amazon's astounding patent Airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery . ...

The Daily Telegraph today alerted me to a paper by an academic at Brown University in the USA, Anton Howes. His The improving mentality: ...

Each year London's Design Museum hosts the Designs of the Year exhibition . The 2015 exhibition opened last March but I've only just...

Increasingly we are seeing repetitive tasks carried out by workers being replaced by robotics. This can even involve skilled workers, such a...

Some books about inventions are serious and are designed to enlarge knowledge. Some books about inventions inspire. And then other books a...

Ocado is the leading UK online grocer. Its business consists in trying to make money from packing groceries and related items for customers...

In looking up a reference recently I came across a couple of articles on British private inventors in New Scientist dating back to 1979-80 (...

I've just been watching an old Grand Design s episode about Alan Dawson's prototype house, Adaptahaus. It was built in Cumbria in a ...

It is unusual for patent disputes to involve taking your father in law to court. Here's a British one from World War I. My source is...

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has made available at the British Library, London PDFs of British patent specifications from 1617 ...

I had a meeting with an inventor about her product idea, and in our talking it occurred to me to put down what I consider the key points for...

Recently I ran a class teaching intellectual property to high school students at the American School in London . I've done this severa...

Magic Leap is a Florida company, backed by Google, who have published some unusual patent applications about using googles to achieve a stat...

This post examines the patent shares of five major EU countries from 1990 to 2014, using their publications in the PCT system. It is a follo...