THE PATENT SEARCH BLOG

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...

Stephen Hawking, the eminent Cambridge professor, applied on the 2 March 2015 for his own name as a trade mark in a number of activities. ...

I've just ended my year as a mentor at Kingston University where teams of business students try to run a microbusiness. The final even...

On Monday 13 April I will be giving a talk on women inventors in Kingston, a suburb of London, UK. It is part of the programme of the Univer...

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

The YouGov BrandIndex 2014 site has a wealth of data on popular brands, widely interpreted, from many countries. I wrote a similar post las...

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...