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The corporate IP tech stack 2026: what in-house teams should demand from AI tools
By 2026, artificial intelligence will no longer be a “nice to have” in corporate IP departments. It will be a baseline requirement for managing invention capture, patent quality, portfolio scale, and legal risk. That transition is already well underway. A 2025 LawNext...
Mewburn Ellis achieves Great Place To Work™ Certification for second consecutive year
LONDON – European Intellectual Property law firm, Mewburn Ellis, today announces that it has been awarded the Great Place To Work™ Certification 2025 by Great Place to Work ®, marking the firm’s second consecutive year receiving the distinction. The internationally...
The hidden cost of missed inventions: how AI helps corporations capture R&D innovation before it disappears
For most large R&D-driven organizations, the biggest innovation risk is not competitors—it is silence. Every year, thousands of potentially patentable inventions never make it into an invention disclosure, let alone a patent filing. They remain buried in...
Clarivate reveals Top 100 Global Innovators 2026
The Top 100 organizations lead the way in innovation, contributing an exceptional 16% of the world’s highest-strength AI inventions. London, UK, January 21, 2026 - Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the...
Drug Repurposing and Repositioning: March 19, 2026
Drug repurposing continues to offer significant opportunities to bring treatments to patients faster and at lower development risk. However, success increasingly depends on getting regulatory strategy, reimbursement pathways, and IP protection right from the outset....
Government proposes amendments to Indian Patent Rules
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, the body responsible for administering Indian IP laws has, on August 22, 2023, published the Draft Patents (Amendment), Rules, 2023 (Draft Rules). The Draft Rules...
Transformation consultation II – Modernizing IPO’s services Consultation kicks off work on new digital trademarks and designs services
Government launches consultation as work on new trademarks and designs services starts The UK Government has launched a second consultation on proposed changes to allow the Intellectual Property Office to deliver better digital services. In July, the government...
Room temperature superconductivity in sight
Room temperature superconductivity has been a dream for researchers and industry alike for many years, and a new paper released by South Korean scientists suggests that it may have been discovered. The ability to conduct electricity without loss of energy has the...
USPTO updates drawing figures selection process for efficiency
In a recent communication, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced an improved and more efficient process for choosing drawing figures to be featured on the front page of pre-grant patent publications. The new development, which will take...
Exercising judicious use: AI tools for legal professionals
In recent years, the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has brought about significant changes in how various industries engage with technology. From sophisticated machine learning algorithms to natural language processing and computer vision systems, AI...
The importance of Bayh-Dole Act compliance for patent holders
In the realms of technology and innovation, patents offer the lifeblood that propels forward progress. Patent holders are granted an exclusive right to their invention, providing them with a distinct market advantage. However, when these inventions are borne out of...
China enacts world’s first legislation regulating generative artificial intelligence
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (hereinafter referred to as AIGC), represented by ChatGPT, has gained great development and attention worldwide. On the one hand, due to its powerful knowledge and content generation capabilities, the industry...
The UK joins the comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-pacific partnership
In the latest free trade agreement expansion news, the UK has formally signed the treaty to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The CPTPP is a wide-reaching free trade agreement that currently includes Australia,...
UK Government publishes transformation consultation response
The UK government has published its response to the transformation consultation which ran in late 2022 and ended on 6 January this year. The government sought views on a number of changes related to the Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO) new digital services, and...
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