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A healthtech design dispute over heart rate monitoring devices shows that the scope of protection of a registered design can be very narrow...

Artificial intelligence is making an impact in real-world situations, from agritech to music composition, and healthcare data analysis to customer service. As the technology expands, this is an important moment for establishing a competitive advantage...

The UK Government has published a revised Code of Practice on trials of automated vehicles...

The controversy around Europe's new copyright directive has been high profile and intense...

The wearable tech industry has made huge strides since the early days (everyone's favourite: calculator watches) and has been on the cusp of exploding for almost a decade...

It has taken three years, but changes to the UK's trade marks system to implement the 2015 Trade Mark Directive have now taken effect...

The Brexit deal agreed in principle in November 2018 has been voted down by a substantial margin in the UK Parliament and so, at the time of writing, a “no deal” Brexit is a very real possibility...

The changes to Entrepreneurs' Relief announced in the UK Chancellor's Autumn Budget (discussed here) rang alarm bells for some...

The chaos produced by drone sightings at the UK's second busiest airport over the busy Christmas holiday season showed all too painfully why legal control of drones is needed...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has launched new standards setting out the requirements needed to develop digital health technologies for the NHS...

Planning for a no-deal Brexit is not easy, even where detailed UK Government and EU Commission guidance is available...

Last week the Supreme Court gave its decision in a long-running pharmaceutical patent dispute between Warner-Lambert and Generics...