Legislation & Skills

National Coding Week is intended open up coding to adults, potentially leading to careers in programming. Taking place over September 21-27, there will be free-to-attend training sessions across the UK, where people will be taught the basics of coding alongside other beginners with little or no previous knowledge. There is a clickable event map on the National Coding Week website. “The ...

UK Patent attorneys are warning that setting high fees for the new European Unitary Patent risks destabilising the patent system across the continent.

The Component Obsolescence Group (COG)  hopes support services for obsolescence management (OM) will be extended to a wider range of industries and materials with the launch of the International Institute of Obsolescence Management (IIOM) in January 2015. The new professional body will provide professional qualifications for practitioners of Obsolescence Management. According to Stuart Kelly, chairman of COG UK and IIOM, ...

Michael Jaeger, patent attorney at leading UK patent and trade mark attorneys Withers & Rogers LLP, writes:

For the green consumer, there are many choices available when looking to purchase an energy-efficient device.

A European initiative which could automate the process of emergency services being notified on road accidents anywhere in the European Union is facing a two year delay. The EC had originally proposed that legislation for the introduction of the eCall system would be in place by end of 2015. But adoption by the European Parliament has been slower than expected and so the deadline for implementation of the eCall system has slipped by two ...

Michael Jaeger, patent attorney at leading UK patent and trade mark attorneys Withers & Rogers LLP, writes: GB Patent Number: GB2500134 Granted to: Redcliffe Magtronics Limited You’ve seen them before and you know what they do, but do you know what they’re called? By this I mean the tags attached to clothing and other high-value items which shop assistants remove at the ...

Michael Jaeger, patent attorney at leading UK patent and trade mark attorneys Withers & Rogers LLP, writes: GB Patent Number: GB2488238 Granted to: Jaguar Land Rover Limited One of the consequences of living in an automated society is that while most of us were living life in the slow lane on Christmas Day, the publication servers of the UK Intellectual Property Office ...

When ordinary activities like using Wi-Fi in a coffee shop or updating smartphone apps provokes lawsuits you know something is seriously amiss with the legal system. That has been the state of play for some time in the US – but perhaps not for much longer. Recently US president Barack Obama announced a series of measures that he hopes will ...

GB Patent Number: 2483006 Granted to: Awarepoint Corporation I was really quite shocked last week when listening to a news report about ‘never events’. These are serious surgical blunders which are preventable and should never have happened. Examples of such ‘never events’ include operating on the wrong body part and leaving instruments in a patient after surgery, the latter of ...