Legislation & Skills

White space technologies could potentially be launched in the UK towards the end of 2013, says Ed Richards, Ofcom chief executive

It seems that hardly another day goes by without another global consumer electronics giant filing a patent lawsuit against another, writes Alan MacDougall, a Chartered Patent Attorney and partner at IP advisers Mathys & Squire LLP.

Small and medium-sized businesses should not let an expectation that their invention will have a limited commercial lifespan stop them from obtaining patent protection and benefiting from tax relief linked to the incoming Patent Box.

Guest columnist Peter Winnington-Ingram, senior site director at Plexus, looks at the impact the recently adopted RoHS 2.0 EU Directive will have on the development of medical systems

Henar Dyson, a solicitor at law firm, Thomson Snell & Passmore, outlines the legal obligations of firms in conforming to the WEEE Directive on the disposal of electronic products and packaging waste

Is it real or wilful ignorance that permits us to foul our own planet with Styrofoam cups and rusted batteries? Would we curb our wasteful activities if only we knew the error of our ways? Technophiles from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think so, and to equip the public with the knowledge we need to change our behaviour they've tagged our technological trash with GPS chips and tracked it across the globe. "Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up," says Carlo Ratti, director of the MIT Senseable City Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A court date has been set for the UK's largest ever investigation into the illegal exportation of e-waste.

Ofcom's proposed auction of so-called 4G spectrum ignores crucial consumer interests in price, quality of service (QoS), timescale and coverage in favour of revenue, the Communications Management Association (CMA) says.

Sony may have won this battle, but the war is still continuing in the saga between two of the world's electronic giants.

A new report proposes changes in the way the market is notified of technology that is protected and proposes new remedies for patent infringement